potation
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Would I had the power to veto Bills of every mosquito; Then I'd pass a peaceful summer, With no small nocturnal hummer Feasting on my circulation, For his regular potation.
From The Wit of Women Fourth Edition by Kate Sanborn
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 Hudson Stuck
Seizing a vile potation that was labelled “To be taken immediately,” and hurling it with demoniacal force right on the chops of the courageous Timothy, “Take that!” cried he with a rancorous yell.
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
Debilitated people, who have been unfortunately accustomed to great ingurgitation of spirituous potation, frequently part with a great quantity of water during the night, but with not more than usual in the day-time.
From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation.
From Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar by R. T. Landells
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