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#149308 10/25/05 12:19 PM
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Doesn't "libate" mean to drink yourself, rather than to give someone a drink?




Hm, it doesn't even show in dic.com. Am I spelling it wrong. I know it from yeshiva (seminary) where it translated a word I don't remember for offering wine to idols (which wine then became damaged ("yahyin nezek"), and was fit only to be destroyed).

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> libate

done hasn't been verbed yet, eh?


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> libate

done hasn't been verbed yet, eh?




Well, but you'd think it was a verb, since the noun form is 'libation,' as far as I know.

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Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s
Etymology: Latin libatus, past participle of libare to pour as an offering
transitive verb : to pour out a libation or make libation to
intransitive verb
1 : to make libation
2 : to drink alcoholic drink <sat up with three libating guests who would not leave>
- W3 [EA]

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huh. doesn't show up at OneLook neither.

but I did find this:
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>huh. doesn't show up at OneLook neither.

unabridged dictionaries need to have some raisin for being.

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> raisin

and now I'm in your d'etre...


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Ok, so both transitive and intransitive. Ta!

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Irrigate: To refresh as if by watering--Webster


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