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Potation

noun
1.
A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg.  Synonyms: draft, draught, tipple.
2.
The act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink).






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"Potation" Quotes from Famous Books



... a pathologist, I have a most decided knowledge of what is good wine; and if the gout should some day honour me with a visit, I shall at least have the consolation to know that I have by potation ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... undergone since first he was carried away, not forgetting the two spirits, Batty and Maudge, that had tormented him so cruelly during the period of his enchantment. The lady and family stared with open mouths as they heard the dreadful recital; but a goodly potation of warm spiced wine drove off the vapours produced by the dismal story, and, by-and-by, Lord Durie and his wife retired to bed—the one weary and exhausted with his trials, and the other with ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 - Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative • Alexander Leighton

... Minton's head fell forward on the table, and he closed his eyes. The last potation was too much ...
— Mark Mason's Victory • Horatio Alger

... I had the power to veto Bills of every mosquito; Then I'd pass a peaceful summer, With no small nocturnal hummer Feasting on my circulation, For his regular potation. ...
— The Wit of Women - Fourth Edition • Kate Sanborn

... adjusted this business to his satisfaction, directed his attention to his newly acquired Munster friends, whom he not only treated with a liberal potation of aqua vitae, but in the warmth of his kindly feelings, actually drank with them, a condescension infinitely more acceptable to the generous nature of these poor-people, than was the more solid proof which he left them of ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... he filled a quart flagon from a barrel that stood nigh, and presented it to his guest. Oliver eagerly accepted it, raised it to his head with a trembling hand, imbibed the contents with lips which quivered with emotion, and, though the potation was as thin as he had requested, so much was he exhausted with the combined fears of alarm and of former revelry, that, when he placed the flagon on the oak table, he uttered a deep sigh ...
— The Fair Maid of Perth • Sir Walter Scott

... be content until he had overcome natural repugnance to the "bitters," and rate himself as so much higher in the scale of being by the length of time his constitution could hold out against the deadly effect of the potation—plume himself upon his superiority to men who killed themselves by taking a like quantity. To drink one glass of wine or spirits a day is to venture upon thin ice; when the one glass has become the three that our boy must have, it ...
— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

... while, at the second bottle perhaps, cheerfulness will supervene, then mirth and garrulity, ending, as the night closes round, with wordy contention and a general brawl. But nothing serious will happen, for toddy, though decidedly heady, is at the worst a thin potation. A strong and very pure spirit is distilled from it, which has its devotees, but the rustic, as a rule, prefers quantity to quality. We are often told that the British Government taught the people of India ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)

... last To give 'um this potation, A vomit or a single cast, Well deserved, in purgation; After that to lay them downe, And bleed a veine in every one, As traytors of ...
— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay



Words linked to "Potation" :   imbibition, drink, imbibing, draught, quaff, drinking



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