Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who drinks with another.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare One who drinks with another.

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  • noun One who drinks with another; a fellow drinker

Etymologies

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From Latin com- (equivalent to English com- or con-) + potator ("drinker"), from potare ("to drink").

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Examples

  • This amusement is superintended by the Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank — a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Dennison, who desires to be remembered to you, would be rejoiced to see his old compotator; but as I am now stationary, I expect regular answers to the epistles of

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • On the present occasion, the revel had lasted since four o’clock, and at length, under the direction of a venerable compotator who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks.

    Chapter XXXVI 1917

  • Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank --- a species of

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank -- - a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times.

    Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819

  • On the present occasion the revel had lasted since four o'clock, and at length, under the direction of a venerable compotator, who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of HIGH JINKS.

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • This amusement is superintended by the Friar, according to the recurrence of certain fustian words, to be repeated by every compotator in turn before he drank -- a species of High Jinks, as it were, by which they regulated their potations, as toasts were given in latter times.

    Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

  • On the present occasion the revel had lasted since four o'clock, and at length, under the direction of a venerable compotator, who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of HIGH JINKS.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • On the present occasion the revel had lasted since four o'clock, and at length, under the direction of a venerable compotator, who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of HIGH JINKS.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • On the present occasion the revel had lasted since four o’clock, and at length, under the direction of a venerable compotator, who had shared the sports and festivity of three generations, the frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of high jinks.

    Guy Mannering 1815

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  • wow this is a cool word. And not listed yet

    June 17, 2013