libamentn.
Obsolete exc. archaic.
= libation n.
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libation1382
fleeting sacrifices1398
drink-offering1535
libament1582
libature1632
minne-drinking1880
1582 in Bible (Rheims) Luke xxii. 17 (note) That solemne cuppe of wine, which belonged as a libament to the offering and eating to the Paschal lambe.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1289 Before his time they dranke it [wine] not at all, neither made they libaments thereof unto their gods.
1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 324 Andromache was pouring libaments To th' ashes.
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