potation
Americannoun
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the act of drinking.
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a drink or draft, especially of an alcoholic beverage.
noun
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the act of drinking
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a drink or draught, esp of alcoholic drink
Etymology
Origin of potation
1400–50; late Middle English potacion < Latin pōtātiōn- (stem of pōtātiō ) a drinking, equivalent to pōtāt ( us ) (past participle of pōtāre to drink) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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He proceeded to shame me by indulging in a very liberal potation, smacking his lips with greatest zest at its conclusion, and winking across at me in a manner intended to indicate his superiority.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
The "Thumbo-rig" above might mean either a new potation or a new dance.
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever
While water was thus freely drunk, wine was not disregarded; but the various articles with which it was adulterated, must have rendered it any thing but a delectable potation according to our received ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
A less quantity of potation of all kinds.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
When church service was over, many knights and other men came, as I expected, into the room where I was, for their morning's potation.
From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Wilhelm Hauff
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