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Definitions: Libation |
LibationNoun1. (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage. 2. A serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity. 3. The act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "libation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Drinking; Verb: potation, draught, libation; carousal; (amusement); drunkenness. |
Worship | Oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation; burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering; offertory. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
"And Jacob set up a Pillar in the place where he had spoken with him, a Pillar of Stone; and he poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it". (Genesis 35:14)The liquid used in libations varied; most commonly it was wine or olive oil. The vesssel., such a patera, used in the ritual often had a significant form which differentiated it from secular vessels. The liquid was poured onto something of religious signficance, very often the ground itself, as an offering to the Earth.
Hero of Alexandria in his Pneumatica described a mechanism for automating the process, by using altar fires to force oil from the cups of two statues.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Libation."
Crosswords: Libation |
| English words defined with "libation": Libament, Libatory ♦ Prelibation. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Libation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (libation), Swedish (libation). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Les Hydropathes. : Premier Traitment.- Libation, Absorbtion et... Indigestion! / Ch. Jacque.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Libation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Libation" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "libation": libation cup. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "libation": Libation-bearers. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
libation | 32 |
bearer libation | 5 |
ceremony libation | 2 |
african libation | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "libation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pije alkoolike (alcohol, boose, booze, drink, fuddle, grog, guzzle, hard drink, hooch, hootch, liquor, lush, ratafee, ratafia, sauce). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الإراقة سكب سائل ما, إراقة الخمر. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сръбване (nip, quencher, sup), възлияние, пиячка (drink, liquor, something to drink), пийване (wet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Czech | popíjení. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | libation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trankopfer. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σπονδή, οινοποσία (wine drinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ממסך (coctail, mixed wine), סך (drink offering, pouring), סוך (pouring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | boráldozat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | libagione. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jough ourallagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ibationlay libação, lias (bottoms, lees), bebedeira (bacchanalia, binge, drunkenness, ebriety, fuddle, guzzle, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, pickle, skinful, spree, wassail). (various references) libaţie, chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, racket, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), beţie (booze, carousal, debauch, debauchery, drink, drinking bout, drunk, drunkenness, ecstasy, fuddle, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, rouse, sheet). (various references) возлияние. (various references) prolivanje vina u slavu boga, alkoholno piće (boose, booze, hooch, liquor, spirit, swizzle, tipple). (various references) libación. (various references) dryckesoffer. (various references) น้ำมันลง"ินเพื่อเป็นการบวงสรวง. (various references) toprağa dökülen şarap, tanrıların şerefine şarabın toprağa dökülmesi, içki içme. (various references) пиятика (binge, booze, carousal, carouse, crapulence, debauch, fuddle, nosedive, racquet, whoopee). (various references) sự rảy rượu cúng, sự rưới rượu cúng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ka-de-a. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | libamenta, libamentis, libamentorum, libamentum, libatio, libatione, libationes, libationibus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | zaothra. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "libation": libationary, libations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "libation": prelibation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "libation": prelibations. (additional references) | |
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"Libation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: igation, Layarion, Libavius, Libbaton, liberatio, liberational, Liberatyion, lipalian, Livatino, livation, lobation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "libation" (pronounced 'Li*ba"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-i-i-l-n-o-t" | |
-2 letters: albino, biotin, bonita, latino, obtain, talion, tibial. | |
-3 letters: aboil, aioli, alibi, aloin, baton, biali, binal, binit, biont, biota, blain, blini, bloat, litai, notal, talon, tibia, tolan, tonal. | |
-4 letters: alit, alto, anil, anti, bail, bait, bani, bint, blat, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bota, ilia, inia, inti, into, iota, lain, lati, lino, lint. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-i-i-l-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: abolition, albinotic, libations, libration. | |
+2 letters: abolitions, bilocation, binational, bloviating, bloviation, bobtailing, jubilation, liberation, librations, notability, notifiable, obligating, obligation, sibilation. | |
+3 letters: bilocations, bisectional, bloviations, calibration, indomitable, indomitably, jubilations, libationary, liberations, librational, lubrication, obligations, openability, prelibation, publication, sailboating, sibilations, sublimation, tribulation, vibrational. | |
+4 letters: abolitionary, abolitionism, abolitionist, absolutizing, ambitionless, antiglobulin, automobiling, bifunctional, binocularity, biotechnical, boatbuilding, calibrations, catabolizing, connubiality, countability, debilitation, deliberation, detonability, embolization, fibrillation, habilitation, honorability, imbibitional, incompatible, incompatibly, infibulation, inhospitable, inhospitably, interorbital, lubrications, metabolizing, mobilization, nebulization, notabilities, obliterating, obliteration, obnubilating, obnubilation, prelibations, publications, sailboatings, strobilation, sublimations, tribulations, umbilication. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 62 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. -... .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i b a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0062 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4675686786758180 |
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