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
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We tried to make a palatable potation from some of our milk chocolate, reserved for the higher work and labelled, “For eating only.”
From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Hudson Stuck
The inability to digest animal food, and the consequent distaste to it, generally precedes the dropsy, and other diseases, which originate from spirituous potation.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
And what have we to do in our circle with this diplomatic, sober potation, this Champagne?
From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Connop Thirlwall
But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by R. T. Landells
Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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