† coˈmestion Obs.
[ad. late L. comestiōn-em eating, devouring, f. comedĕre: see prec.]
Eating; also fig., the devouring action of fire.
| a 1620 J. Dyke Sel. Serm. (1640) 263 There must be a manducation, a comestion of the Word. a 1625 Boys Wks. (1630) 701 Neither was this eating..a seeming only to take bread, and fish, and honie, but it was a true comestion. 1650 Bulwer Anthropomet. xii. 121 The mouth whose office was comestion or assumption of solid aliment. 1654 Ashmole Chem. Coll. 107 Let it be delivered to insatiable Comestion, that being by degrees..burnt into Ashes, etc. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Comestion (comestio), an eating or devouring. |