potation

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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

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)

“A vewy sensible obsawvation, fwiend Lucas!” said Swinton, inspired by a free potation of the widow’s choice wines.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

The inability to digest animal food, and the consequent distaste to it, generally precedes the dropsy, and other diseases, which originate from spirituous potation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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