libation

How To Use libation In A Sentence

• ‘I call this libation the Lord Byron,’ he announces.
• Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
• Nestor prays for them as they arrive and the pair pours libations to Athena.
• Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
• One Glasgow night of aberrationWhen kilted goblins with libationToasted Burns in tawdry exultationAll pished as fartsNot even armed with banjo could theyHit a coo's arse Poor Robert Burns. He deserves better than this | Kevin McKenna
• The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and honey, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and rum. William Lloyd Garrison
• Judaism and paganism both practiced the pouring of sacrificial libations of both blood and wine.
• When one pagan group was ordered to dismantle a totem pole over which libations were poured, they simply placed a bust of Lenin on top and continued as before.
• The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
• I am sure that to them the invocation of Beelzebub is a prelibation of carnality. Là-bas