propination

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English

Etymology

From Latin propinatio. See propine.

Noun

propination (uncountable)

  1. (historical) The right to distill spirits.
  2. (obsolete) The act of pledging, or first drinking and then offering the cup to another.
    • 1697-1698, John Potter, Archæologia Græca
      This Propination was carry'd about towards the right hand, where the superior Quality of some of the Guests did not oblige them to alter that method.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “propination”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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