potation

Some bowls are too small to make this explanation workable if general potation were intended.

Everything knowable about the potation of the 20th century.

But it is not thus that the Poetry of Potation is to be produced.

Another server hovered and poured a cedar-red potation into its bowl.

After the night full of marriage ceremony and potation, it was an easy matter for the squadron to raid the headquarters and kill Kabakçı.

For I will admit that I joined in this unholy midnight potation to gain time for thought and to steady my nerve.

Keighley, fortified by a potation of gin, beer, nutmeg, and sugar, which he referred to as hot flannel, raised no objection; so the horses were put to again.

But his autobiographical recollection of the "deep and dull potation of the dons" is one of the most damning accounts of the somnolent quality of academic life.

After a light breakfast of dried meat, biscuits and a potation of herbs sweetened with honey, they set out once more towards the strange hill that looked like a giant's head.

Others, who had the appearance of men who lived by regular and laborious handicraft, preferred the insulated bliss of an unshared potation, and became more taciturn under its influence.

The word may be derived from potacion de guaya, a potation (from the Latin potere, "to drink") that causes guaya, "lamentation" in Latin American Spanish.

I have not been able either to persuade my brother or to prevail on myself, to disuse the traffic or the potation of brandy, but perhaps a pledge of total abstinence might effectually restrain us.

It was a potation, indeed, that might well make the heart of a toper leap within him; being composed of the richest and raciest wines, highly spiced and sweetened, with roasted apples bobbing about the surface.

The Stonehouse family remained in their suite, content in glad thankfulness to be with Pearl, who lay well covered up on the sofa sleeping off the effects of the excitement and the immersion, and the result of the potation which the Doctor had forced upon her.

At Derby Day parties across the land, hosts and hostesses will root around for a julep recipe, scare up some fresh mint, pulverize bags of ice and fuss uncertainly with a potation so tangled in tradition and contradictory theories about how to make it properly that it sometimes seems a policy issue rather than a drink.