compotation

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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.

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  1. The act of drinking or tippling together. Sir T. Browne. The fashion of compotation was still occasionally practised in Scotland. Scott.

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  1. = French compotation = Italian compotazione, from Latin compotatio(n-), Cicero's translation of Greek συμπόσ, σ1ιον, symposium (see symposium), from com-, together, + potatio(n-), a drinking: see potation.
 

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