potation

English

From Middle English potacion, from Old French potacion, from Latin pōtātiō.

potation (countable and uncountable, plural potations)

(often in the plural) The act of drinking.
- 1819, Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
  Perhaps his nocturnal potations, prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, OCLC 2057953:
  […] a quiet evening at home, alone with a friend and a pipe or two, and a humble potation of British spirits […]
A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book i:
  For as this is the liquor of modern historians, nay, perhaps their muse, if we may believe the opinion of Butler, who attributes inspiration to ale, it ought likewise to be the potation of their readers, since every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.

act of drinking

a drink, especially an alcoholic beverage