potation
Example Sentences
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By way of a stronger potation, Rhenish wine was much to his taste.
From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII by Charles Morris
"Mine host" made sundry equivocal contortions of the countenance, and practised by anticipation several downward motions of the muscles of deglutition, and then swallowed the enormous potation without a groan.
From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by William A. (Alexander) Caruthers
The ceremony of welcome over, the business of the meeting began, and Massasoit, albeit a little incommoded by his strange potation, showed himself both dignified and friendly in his intentions.
From Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin
Indeed, I know of no thin potation more truly refreshing before breakfast, than a cooling draught of cocoanut wai.
From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
Whence it appears, that the methods of relieving inflammatory pains, is by removing all stimulus, as by venesection, cool air, mucilaginous diet, aqueous potation, silence, darkness.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
