compotation
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin compōtātiō. Equivalent to com- + potation.
Noun edit
compotation (countable and uncountable, plural compotations)
- (archaic) The social act of drinking together.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- the fashion of compotation
Translations edit
act of drinking together
Further reading edit
- “compotation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.