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potations

potations is the plural of potation.

Meaning of potation

Noun

potation (countable and uncountable, plural potations)

  1. (in plural, often) The act of drinking.
    • […] perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognizing accents which were tolerably familiar to him—[…]1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VI, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 90
  2. A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage.
    • For as this is the Liquor of modern Hiſtorians, nay, perhaps their Muſe, if we may believe the Opinion of Butler, who attributes Inſpiration to Ale, it ought likewiſe to be the Potation of their Readers; ſince every Book ought to be read with the ſame Spirit, and in the ſame Manner, as it is writ.1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing five Pages of Paper”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 2

Questions about potations

What is potations the plural of?
Potations is the plural of potation.

Words near potations in the dictionary

  1. potassiumlike
  2. potassiums
  3. potassoxyl
  4. potation
  5. potational
  6. potations
  7. potative
  8. potato
  9. potato aphid
  10. potato aphids
  11. potato apple bread

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