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Definition of potation - 2 dictionary results

po⋅ta⋅tion

  [poh-tey-shuhn]
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–noun
1. the act of drinking.
2. a drink or draft, esp. of an alcoholic beverage.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME potacion < L pōtātiōn- (s. of pōtātiō) a drinking, equiv. to pōtāt(us) (ptp. of pōtāre to drink) + -iōn- -ion
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po·ta·tion   (pō-tā'shən)   
n.  

  1. The act of drinking.

  2. A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage.


[Middle English potacion, from Old French, from Latin pōtātiō, pōtātiōn-, a drinking party, from pōtātus, past participle of pōtāre, to drink, from pōtus, a drink; see pō(i)- in Indo-European roots.]
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