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The stomach is well muscled and churns the food about, helping to comminute it, but it can not take the place of the teeth.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.

As old people, thro’ diminution of appetite, open their mouths seldomer than formerly; so for want of teeth to comminute their food, they do it with less noise.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard

So this question becomes urgent: Why, the absolute's own total vision of things being so rational, was it necessary to comminute it into all these coexisting inferior fragmentary visions?

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

That the stomach is fully able to comminute the food may be proved by the following calculation.

From The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 by Osler, William

Likewise the double teeth or grinders, either drop out, or rot away; so as now to be too few remaining to comminute solid food.

From Medica Sacra or a Commentary on on the Most Remarkable Diseases Mentioned in the Holy Scriptures by Mead, Richard