potation

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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

When I was in Tours I visited the abbey of Marmoustier, and there drank a veritable potation from the huge tun which the blessed St. Martin himself filled, by squeezing a single cluster of grapes.

From Rob of the Bowl, Vol. I (of 2) A Legend of St. Inigoe's by Kennedy, John P.

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 Darwin, Erasmus

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

And what have we to do in our circle with this diplomatic, sober potation, this Champagne?

From The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels by Thirlwall, Connop