potation

Example Sentences

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Indeed, I know of no thin potation more truly refreshing before breakfast, than a cooling draught of cocoanut wai.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

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

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

Your ploughman, I suppose, becoming one degree poorer than he was born to be, would only go without his dinner, or without his usual potation of ale.

From St. Ronan's Well by Scott, Walter, Sir

"Ha! they are a jovial troup of good chaps, and deserve one grand potation; but I gave them only one leetle hamper, for fear they should get mouillé."

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various