epotation

English

Etymology

From Latin epotare, epotatum (“to drink”), from e (“out”) + potare (“to drink”).

Noun

epotation (plural epotations)

1. (obsolete, rare) A drinking up; a quaffing.
   • c. 1620, Owen Feltham, Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political:

     When the sword and fire rages, it is but man warring against man: when drunkenness reigns, the devil is at war with man, and the epotations of dumb liquor damn him.