potation

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“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

A less quantity of potation of all kinds.

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

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

"Here, you fish!" he said, in the midst of Gad's potation.

From Cudjo's Cave by Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend)

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