libation
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- noun
- /laɪˈbeɪʃən/
- Literature
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libación
- Beer is poured onto the shrine mound and into the river as a libation for Chinyanta.
- pour libation
- sacrifices and libations
- ritual libations
What offerings and libations can can I make and to whom?
- What offerings and libations can can I make and to whom?
- Incantatory insistence Is liturgy and libation utopic ongoingness.
- We might need to do it, but the the God of the universe doesn't need libation offerings or whatever.
Examples
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Bless you, mes enfants- may the gods pour libations and happiness on your houses.
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Periodically, the homeowner went outside the house to pour a libation of liquor on the ground, offering it also to the dancers.
Academic text (2008) -
Let's have a little libation on the altar of friendship.
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Our souls need a more divine libation!
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What offerings and libations can can I make and to whom?
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The women prepare a rice flour porridge to serve as a libation.
Academic text (2006) -
O god of the sea, I offer you this ale as a libation, that you may bestow upon us in the year to come the rich and diverse fruits of your kingdom.
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When the prayers finished, Kazembe rose and came to the riverbank, where he distributed the libations and foodstuffs.
Academic text (2006) -
Circling the bonfire, Rara members pour ritual libations of kleren (cane liquor) at the cardinal points to honor the spirits.
Academic text (1996) -
During the ritual, the priest conducted a libation, pouring wine onto the ground as an offering to the gods.
Synonyms
A common drink, often with alcohol, offered during a ceremony to honor people
To bring bread and wine to the altar during a Christian service
Idioms
Compounds
A common drink, often with alcohol, offered during a ceremony to honor people
How Ceremonial
Surface Forms
Morphology
libation = libat + ion
The lexical stem 'libat' is a Latin combining form not a standalone English word, so although '-ion' forms a noun, learners cannot derive the meaning from familiar English components.
Etymology
Libation comes from the Latin word libare, which meant 'to pour' or 'to sip'. In old ceremonies a libation was a drink poured out as an offering to the gods, which is why the word still means a ritual pouring today.