compotation

• In his hours of festivity and compotation, drop that he puts you in mind of what Sir William Temple says of the Pensionary De Witt,--who at that time governed half Europe,--that he appeared at balls, assemblies, and public places, as if he had nothing else to do or to think of. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works
• In his hours of festivity and compotation, drop that he puts you in mind of what Sir William Temple says of the —  Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1752
• Aristarch in good humour during the _early_ part of a compotation, till we got drunk enough to make him 'a speech. ' —  Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
• The others entered the change-house, leading Edward in unresisting submission; for his landlord whispered him, that to demur to such an overture would be construed into a high misdemeanour against the leges conviviales, or regulations of genial compotation. —  Waverley — Volume 1
• I may here mention that the fashion of compotation described in the text was still occasionally practised in Scotland in the author's youth. —  Waverley — Volume 1

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