libation• The oblations included, in addition to the animal offering, a cake of flour and oil and a libation of wine.• Then I raise my glass and offer a libation to my beloved.• A libation of orangejuicepoured out on the ground to the memory of UncleMax, that's all.• Its ancestorshaunt the mixingbowl, stirred to a gallop by the woodenspoon and libations of flour and milk.• Eventually, inextremis, I poured the appropriatelibations and: it worked - or seemed to.• Thus bribed, the media steadily worked their way through mountains of free food and the occasionallibation.• Often they offer libations to the ancestral gods and cleanse themselves.• Then Olivia and her brother, dressed in their priestlyrobes, pour libations into the holy well.
Originlibation
(1300-1400)Latinlibatio, from libare“to pour as an offering”