compotation

• “But this very reasonable proposal, as it might have elsewhere seemed, contained in it treason against the laws of German compotation.”

  Anne of Geierstein

• “Whether those who shared in the compotation were more seasoned topers — whether Middlemas drank more than they — or whether, as he himself afterwards suspected, his cup had been drugged, like those of”

  The Surgeon's Daughter

• “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.”

  Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

• “Scythian king Ateas more musical than this comes to, who, when he heard that admirable flutist Ismenias, detained then by him as a prisoner of war, playing upon the flute at a compotation, swore he had rather hear his own horse neigh?”

  Essays and Miscellanies

• “* Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the”

  Ivanhoe

• “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.”

  The Waverley

• “Wouldn't you be too old to bring me my whey in the morning soon as I'd awake, perhaps with a severe headache, after the plenary indulgence of a clerical compotation?”

  Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three

• “Like the Hermit, the Shepherd makes havock amongst the King's game; but by means of a sling, not of a bow; like the Hermit, too, he has his peculiar phrases of compotation, the sign and countersign being Passelodion and Berafriend.”

  Ivanhoe. A Romance

• “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

• “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: or, 'Tis sixty years since

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