potation

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Everybody pledged the patriarch's health in the creamy potation except myself.

From The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Harland, Marion

The "Thumbo-rig" above might mean either a new potation or a new dance.

From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James

Thus, having swallowed the last possible morsel and washed it down with a fervent potation, Oloffe felt his heart yearning and his whole frame in a manner dilating with unbounded benevolence.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

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

We tried to make a palatable potation from some of our milk chocolate, reserved for the higher work and labelled, “For eating only.”

From The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America by Stuck, Hudson