morsitation

morsitation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, rare) The act of biting or gnawing, especially by insects.
   • 1909, Transactions of the National Dental Association, page 83:

     […] and his research into the literature of the subject, with his liberal recognition of the quotation marks, indicates his well-disposed mind toward the men who have blazed the way before him in this difficult and intricate mechanism of morsitation.

• “morsitation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• misrotation