potation
the act of drinking.
a drink or draft, especially of an alcoholic beverage.
Origin of potation
1Words Nearby potation
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use potation in a sentence
If the affair end here, well and good; but we will suppose that the potation goes on, and very speedily a new effect is produced.
Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.
Our Mutual Friend | Charles DickensFor I will admit that I joined in this unholy midnight potation to gain time for thought and to steady my nerve.
The Ivory Child | H. Rider Haggardpotation rapidly followed potation, and the jug again demanded replenishing.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia | William Gilmore SimmsEverybody pledged the patriarch's health in the creamy potation except myself.
The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) | Marion Harland
British Dictionary definitions for potation
/ (pəʊˈteɪʃən) /
the act of drinking
a drink or draught, esp of alcoholic drink
Origin of potation
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse