de|glu|ti|tion «DEE gloo TIHSH uhn, DEHG loo-», noun.
the act or power of swallowing: »
Judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition (Charlotte Brontë).
╂[< French déglutition < Latin dēglūtīre swallow down < dē- down + glūtīrī to swallow. Compare etym. under glut (Cf. ↑glut), glutton. (Cf. ↑glutton)]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.