potion
- a drink or draft, especially one having or reputed to have medicinal, poisonous, or magical powers: a love potion; a sleeping potion.
Origin of potion
Synonyms for potion
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elixir, draught, cordial, tonic, mixture, libation, liquid, cup, liquor, drink, dose, dram, medicine, remedy, draft, brew, nip, restorative, stimulant, philterExamples from the Web for potion
Contemporary Examples of potion
The rooms come equipped with 4-poster wooden beds, potion bottles, cauldrons, and Hogwartsian accents—perfect for us mere muggles.
Stay in the Magical ‘Harry Potter’ Hotel: London’s Georgian House Offers ‘Wizard’s Chambers’Marlow Stern
October 26, 2014
They are then blended with chicken broth and that potion is thickened with cream.
He takes the potion, regenerates and says, “Doctor, no more.”
They give him a potion that will let him pick his next regeneration.
Mr. Gold, however, had other ideas, and tricked both Emma and Regina (Lana Parilla), taking the potion for himself.
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Historical Examples of potion
Mrs Bangham submitted; and the doctor, having administered her potion, took his own.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
The opium that I had taken in my potion made my head rather heavy.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
But is there any potion which might serve as a test of overboldness and excessive and indiscreet boasting?
LawsPlato
Or would you abstain from using the potion altogether, although you have no reason for abstaining?'
LawsPlato
At first poison was tried, but she suspected it, and would not take the potion.
England, Picturesque and DescriptiveJoel Cook
potion
- a drink, esp of medicine, poison, or some supposedly magic beverage
- a rare word for beverage
Word Origin for potion
Word Origin and History for potion
c.1300, pocioun "medicinal drink," from Old French pocion "potion, draught, medicine" (12c.), from Latin potionem (nominative potio) "a potion, a drinking," also "poisonous draught, magic potion," from potus, irregular past participle of potare "to drink," from PIE root *po(i)- "to drink" (cf. Sanskrit pati "drinks," panam "beverage;" Greek pinein "to drink," poton "that which one drinks," potos "drinking bout;" Old Church Slavonic piti "to drink," pivo "beverage"). Potus as a past participle adjective in Latin meant "drunken."
potion
(pō′shən)- A liquid medicinal dose or drink.