Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of drinking or tippling together.
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- noun rare The act of drinking or tippling together.
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- noun The act of
drinking together .
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Examples
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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
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But this very reasonable proposal, as it might have elsewhere seemed, contained in it treason against the laws of German compotation.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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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.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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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?
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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.
Waverley 2004
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* Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the
Ivanhoe 1892
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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.
The Waverley 1877
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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?
Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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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.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Aristarch in good humour during the _early_ part of a compotation, till we got drunk enough to make him 'a speech. '
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
whichbe commented on the word compotation
The act of drinking or tippling together.
May 12, 2008