LIBATION


Meaning of LIBATION in English

noun

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A libation of orange juice poured out on the ground to the memory of Uncle Max, that's all.

Eventually, inextremis, I poured the appropriate libations and: it worked - or seemed to.

Its ancestors haunt the mixing bowl, stirred to a gallop by the wooden spoon and libations of flour and milk.

Often they offer libations to the ancestral gods and cleanse themselves.

The oblations included, in addition to the animal offering, a cake of flour and oil and a libation of wine.

Then I raise my glass and offer a libation to my beloved.

Then Olivia and her brother, dressed in their priestly robes, pour libations into the holy well.

Thus bribed, the media steadily worked their way through mountains of free food and the occasional libation .

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