LIBATION in a Sentence
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Example sentences for LIBATION, such as:
1. Speedily all pour glad libation on the board, and supplicate the gods.
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Meanings and Examples of LIBATION
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libation
n. a serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity
n. the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony
Classic Sentence:
1 The king entertained them in his spacious colonnades; in the central hall they poured goblets of wine in libation, and held the cups while the feast was served on gold.
2 Speedily all pour glad libation on the board, and supplicate the gods.
3 Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval.
4 It was as though a cold air had dispersed the fumes of his libations, and the situation loomed before him black and naked as the ruins of a fire.
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