potation

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It was about the same hour at which Mr. Levi was drinking his thirsty potation of brandy and soda at the “Guy of Warwick.”

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

When church service was over, many knights and other men came, as I expected, into the room where I was, for their morning's potation.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

"Mine host" made sundry equivocal contortions of the countenance, and practised by anticipation several downward motions of the muscles of deglutition, and then swallowed the enormous potation without a groan.

From The Cavaliers of Virginia, vol. 1 of 2 or, The Recluse of Jamestown; An historical romance of the Old Dominion by Caruthers, William A. (Alexander)

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