[n. of action from CHYMIFY: see -ATION.] The conversion of food into chyme, the formation of chyme.
1826. Good, Bk. Nat. (1834), I. 277. Chymification, or its [food’s] reduction into pulp … is the office of the stomach.
1859. Carpenter, Anim. Phys., iv. (1872), 162. The first stage of digestion properly so called is termed chymification.
