potation

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While with a scornful glance, that comprehended both him and his acolytes, the other faced back to the bar, coolly completed his potation, and, without saying another word, reascended the stairway.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

Now this brings me," he continued after drinking off the potation which Flan Sucker had assiduously placed upon the stand for his use, "to Andy Grant.

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

Order me a beef-steak, and some potation or other.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

While water was thus freely drunk, wine was not disregarded; but the various articles with which it was adulterated, must have rendered it any thing but a delectable potation according to our received ideas.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

At Cambridge "they have a potation of Figgs, Reasons and Almons, Bonnes and Beer at the charge of the sayed Determiners."

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen