Definition of "potation" []

• The act of drinking. (noun)
• A drink, especially an alcoholic beverage. (noun)

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• "Unfortunately, municipal water treatment nowadays means more than just water cleansed of poop, pee, and various other nasty bits of stuff in order to make for a potable potation coming out of your tap."
• "One potation in particular caught my attention, an “Irish car bomb”."
• "There was a laugh among the yeomen who witnessed this pottle-deep potation, so obstreperous as to rouse and disturb the King, who, raising his finger, said angrily, “How, knaves, no respect, no observance?”"