Libation meaning

lī-bā'shən
The definition of a libation is an alcoholic drink or the pouring of wine or oil as a religious ritual.

An example of a libation is a beer.

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The pouring of a liquid offering as a religious ritual.
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A beverage, especially an intoxicating beverage.
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The act of drinking an intoxicating beverage.
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The liquid so poured out.
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The liquid so poured.
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The ritual of pouring out wine or oil upon the ground as a sacrifice to a god.
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An alcoholic drink or the act of drinking.
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The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity.
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The wine or liquid thus poured out.
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(often humorous) A beverage, especially an alcoholic one.
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Origin of libation

Middle English libacioun from Latin lībātiō lībātiōn- from lībātus past participle of lībāre to pour out as an offering

Sentence Examples

  • Though they saw the enemy advancing upon them sword in hand they remained at worship untroubled and were slaughtered as they poured libation and burned incense, for they put their own safety second to the service of God.

  • (1533 B.C.) on the breast of the Sphinx at Gizeh.l The tablet represents Tethmosis before his guardian deity, the sun-god Re, pouring a libation of wine on one side and offering incense on the other.

  • In the second temple there was a water libation every morning of the festival, and on the evening of the first day the great golden candelabrum was lit up and the men danced a torch dance around it (Mishnah, Sukkah, v.

  • It is reported by Josephus that, when Alexander Jannaeus, in the year 95 B.e., was acting as high-priest in the temple on the Feast of Tabernacles, instead of pouring the water libation on the altar, according to the Pharisaic custom, he poured it at his feet, giving rise to a riot in which 6000 men are said to have lost their lives (Ant.

  • Generally he holds in one hand the censer, and with the other casts the pastils or osselets of incense into it: sometimes he offers incense in one hand and makes the libation of wine with the other.

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