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n. - The act of drinking (especially an alcoholic drink); A serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg.

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  • Still the custom of inordinate potation fondly clung to him.
  • What intussusception, what potation, and, as a necessary consequence, alas! what rubification!
  • Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.
  • But don't expect that at over 200 years old, we're looking at a particularly palatable potation.
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