epulation

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English

Etymology

Latin epulatio.

Noun

epulation (plural epulations)

  1. (obsolete) A feast or banquet.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC:
      he would dine with Jove, and pretend unto epulation, he desired no other addition than a piece of Cytheridian cheese

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for epulation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)