But this very reasonable proposal, as it might have elsewhere seemed, contained in it treason against the laws of German compotation. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Geierstein] Reference
Whether those who shared in the compotation were more seasoned topers — whether Middlemas drank more than they — or whether, as he himself afterwards suspected, his cup had been drugged, like those of. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
Scythian king Ateas more musical than this comes to, who, when he heard that admirable flutist Ismenias, detained then by him as a prisoner of war, playing upon the flute at a compotation, swore he had rather hear his own horse neigh?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
In his hours of festivity and compotation, drop that he puts you in mind of what Sir William Temple says of the Pensionary De Witt, — who at that time governed half Europe, — that he appeared at balls, assemblies, and public places, as if he had nothing else to do or to think of. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
I may here mention that the fashion of compotation described in the text was still occasionally practised in Scotland in the author's youth. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
I may here mention, that the fashion of compotation described in the text, was still occasionally practised in Scotland in the author's youth. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
Wouldn't you be too old to bring me my whey in the morning soon as I'd awake, perhaps with a severe headache, after the plenary indulgence of a clerical compotation?. From Wordnik.com. [Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
Whether those who shared in the compotation were more seasoned topers -- whether Middlemas drank more than they -- or whether, as he himself afterwards suspected, his cup had been drugged, like those of. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King's game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe. A Romance] Reference
The others entered the change-house, leading Edward in unresisting submission; for his landlord whispered him, that to demur to such an overture would be construed into a high misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or regulations of genial compotation. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
But their aversedness and dislike to music, that affords us so great delights and such charming satisfactions, a man could not forget if he would, by reason of the inconsistency of what Epicurus saith, when he pronounceth in his book called his Doubts that his wise man ought to be a lover of public spectacles and to delight above any other man in the music and shows of the Bacchanals; and yet he will not admit of music problems or of the critical inquiries of philologists, no, not so much as at a compotation. From Wordnik.com. [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference
A high misdemeanour against the LEGES CONVIVIALES, or regulations of genial compotation. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
A friendly compotation has been held "upon the head of it," which means upon that subject. From Wordnik.com. [Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
30 I may here mention that the fashion of compotation described in the text was still occasionally practised in. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
A few of his brother students engaged in the agreeable relaxation of taking a hair of the same dog that bit them, after a liberal compotation on the preceding night. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King’s game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
), by making the phrase to refer only to the secrecy to be observed "in society and compotation, from the ancient custome in Symposiacke meetings to wear chapletts of roses about their heads.". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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