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poculation

poculation noun: drinking of wine or other intoxicating liquor.

Noun

poculation (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Drinking of wine or other intoxicating liquor.
    • The art of poculation, if so it may be termed, being of the highest antiquity, and the claims of Bacchus as the inventor of the art being unquestioned.1837, D.C., “Signs of the Times”, in The New Monthly Magazine, page 580
    • And as for the marvellous poculation that follows the ordinary English dinner, the aristocratic Londoner appears simply as a porous member through which liquids disappear[…]or rather cognac and whisky sink into his organization as gracefully as if the British stomach were the proper receptacle and...1872 December 19, “Dined into Dyspepsia”, in New National Era, volume 3, number 50, page 1

Origin of poculation

From Latin poculum (“cup”) + -ation.

Questions about poculation

What does poculation mean?
Poculation means drinking of wine or other intoxicating liquor.
What part of speech is poculation?
Poculation is a noun.

Words near poculation in the dictionary

  1. POCSO
  2. POCT
  3. Poctol
  4. Poctoy
  5. pocula
  6. poculation
  7. poculent
  8. poculents
  9. poculiform
  10. poculiforms
  11. poculum

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