manducator

manducator (plural manducators)

1. (rare) Something used for manducating.
   • 1841 March 27, James Johnson, quotee, “Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation; with an Inquiry into the Comparative Merits of Different Mineral Waters, &c. &c. By James Johnson, ”, in The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c., number 1262, London: Robson, Levey, and Franklyn, , page 198, column 3:

     Now if any Transatlantic Philistine can crack the shell of this German nut, and extract an eatable kernel, he must possess a manducator pretty considerably stronger than that with which Samson cracked the skulls of the ancient Philistines in the Holy Land—the jaw-bone of an ass.

   • 1862, [Martin] Ephraim Mosely, “Patented Invention of Caoutchouc Fixatures for Artificial Teeth, Sustained by Atmospheric Pressure”, in Teeth, Their Natural History: With the Physiology of the Human Mouth, in Regard to Artificial Teeth, London: Robert Hardwicke, , page 45:

     They may in a sense, be almost considered superior to the original, or natural teeth, as merely mechanical manducators, wanting only the nervous connection conferring tactile sense, to make them life-like.

   • 1874, William Edward Gedge, Crushing and Preparing Food (A.D. 1874—N^o 1191), London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, , page 2:

     The food will be kept warm by means of a spirit lamp, which will give the requisite heat to the “manducator.” This instrument will be found very advantageous in the army and navy for crushing biscuit. Made of large size the “manducator” may be used to prepare food for animals, as instead of cutting the food this instrument by masticating it renders it easier of digestion.

   • 1923, [Max] v[on] Stephanitz, translated by J Schwabacher, The German Shepherd Dog in Word and Picture, Jena: Anton Kämpfe, page 512:

     What causes the head of a shepherd dog to appear to be coarse and ignoble is not an increased distension or elevation of the skull cavity, no supposed augmentation in the space for the brain, but it rests on circumstances which are purely external, such as a bad proportion between the length and the breadth, large bones, an especially pronounced ridge of the cranium, a large overhanging zygomatic arch, and lastly, thick layers of short muscles, especially those of the temporal muscle and the manducator.

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, pages 407–408:

     Shaun yawned, as his general address rehearsal, (that was antepropreviousday’s pigeons-in-a-pie with rough dough for the carrier and the hash-say-ugh of overgestern pluzz the ’stuesday’s shampain in his head, with the memories of the past and the hicnuncs of the present embelliching the musics of the futures from Miccheruni’s band) addressing himself ex alto and complaining with vocal discontent it was so close as of the fact the rag was up and of the briefs and billpasses, a houseful of deadheads, of him to dye his paddycoats to morn his hesternmost earning, his board in the swealth of his fate as, having moistened his manducators upon the quiet and scooping molars and grinders clean with his two fore fingers, he sank his hunk, dowanouet to resk at once, exhaust as winded hare, utterly spent, it was all he could do (disgusted with himself that the combined weight of his tons of iosals was a hundred men’s massed too much for him), upon the native heath he loved covered kneehigh with virgin bush, for who who e’er trod sod of Erin could ever sleep off the turf!

2. (rare) One who manducates.
   • A. G. Liebeskind, page 847, column 1:

     Manducators, ma(4)n´-du(1)-ka(1)-tu(2)rz, s. pl. lud.]

   • 1895 May 18, The Truth Seeker: A Journal of Freethought and Reform, New York, N.Y., page 312, column 2:

     A minister who did not want the members of his congregation to chew tobacco while he was preaching admonished the manducators as follows: “Take your quid of tobacco out of your mouth on entering the house of God, and gently lay it on the outer edge of the sidewalk or on the fence. […] Geo. E. Macdonald.

   • 1896 January 17, The Buffalo Commercial, Buffalo, N.Y., page 4, column 2:

     Many tobacco manducators become walking salivary ducts without realizing the degrading transformation they have suffered.

   • 1987, Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard, Michelet, New York, N.Y.: Hill and Wang, →ISBN, page 19:

     […] “historical” migraines have no purpose but to establish Michelet as the manducator, priest, and owner of History.

   • 2018, Marcel Jousse, translated by Edgard Sienaert, Memory, Memorization, and Memorizers: The Galilean Oral-Style Tradition and Its Traditionists (Biblical Performance Criticism; 15), Eugene, Ore.: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page 293:

     Manducation is repeated at several fixed times during the day. So, oral memorization will be repeated to satiety, therefore, in the Semitic milieu, seven times a day. […] This manducation-memorization of the lesson is, first, a daily need for the manducator-memorizer.

mandūcātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of mandūcō

• “manducator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• manducator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.