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When the dentist "irrigates" your mouth, you are not supposed to swallow. You are supposed to spit out the water into the little whirlpool sink device or allow the assistant to suck it back out of your mouth with the little sucky vacuum device. I don't think that one irrigates another by giving that person something to drink.
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Too bad liquidate is already taken 
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I use hydrate often, (you know us singers...) but it's a personal thing, not something you'd do to someone else.
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"The first thing we have to do," said the doctor in the desert hospital, "is to rehydrate the patient."
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Don't they normally do that with a drip rather than just giving the patient a drink?
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Quote:
Don't they normally do that with a drip rather than just giving the patient a drink?
I think that's the padre's point.
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After all, I think there is reason for the absence of the desired word: You can always lead the oxen to the fountain, but you can't force him to drink  (probably the correct quote in English is different)
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I always thought that to "libate" was to offer part of the drink to the gods or spirits, often by tipping it onto the earth.
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In Philippians 2:17 (NAB), Saint Paul says "But, even if I am poured out as a libation upon the sacrificial service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with all of you." The commentary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops upon this verse says "Libation: in ancient religious ritual, the pouring out on the ground of a liquid offering as a sacrifice. Paul means that he may be facing death."
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