Definitions for potation

potation po·ta·tion

Spelling: [poh-tey-shuh n]
IPA: /poʊˈteɪ ʃən/

Potation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 172 anagrams from letters in potation (ainooptt).

Definitions for potation

noun

  1. the act of drinking.
  2. a drink or draft, especially of an alcoholic beverage.

Origin of potation

1400-50; late Middle English potacion Latin pōtātiōn- (stem of pōtātiō) a drinking, equivalent to pōtāt(us) (past participle of pōtāre to drink) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for potation

Many of the company were furnished with pipes, and most of them with some kind of evening potation.

Mr Riderhood got out his bottle, and fetched his jug-full of water, and administered a potation.

Taking a hair of the dog that bit you was, however, a maxim with Salernitans for the cure of potation headaches.

Let it not be supposed that there was any deficiency in the very necessary articks of potation on this auspicious day: no!

"Try a glass of brandy," said Cutts, and he administered the potation.

"The influenza is stronger," replied Mrs. Portheris oracularly, and finished her second potation.

Mrs. S. had a pimpled face, which I believe arose from potation of ale.

If the affair end here, well and good; but we will suppose that the potation goes on, and very speedily a new effect is produced.

Make the potation stronger with brandy as the night wears on.

But I suspect the water forms the best part of the potation.

Word Value for potation
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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