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epotation

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin epotare, epotatum (“to drink”), from e (“out”) + potare (“to drink”).

Noun edit

epotation (plural epotations)

  1. (obsolete, rare) A drinking up; a quaffing.
    • c. 1620, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political:
      When the sword and fire rages, it is but man warring against man: when drunkenness reigns, the devil is at war with man, and the epotations of dumb liquor damn him.
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