Libation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIBATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a ceremonial pouring of a liquid
• a drink poured out as an offering to a deity
• the pouring out of a libation
• drink poured as an offering to the gods
• The act of pouring a liquid or liquor, usually wine, either on the ground or on a victim in sacrifice, in honor of some deity; also, the wine or liquid thus poured out.
• (facetious) a serving of an alcoholic beverage
• a serving (of wine) poured out in honor of a deity
• the act of pouring a liquid offering (especially wine) as a religious ceremony
• a drink

Words related to LIBATION

libational12 libations11

Words that contain LIBATION

libations11 delibation13 libational12 delibations14 libationary16 prelibation15 prelibations16

How to use LIBATION in a sentence

• They advise Gilgamesh to perform certain rites, to wash his feet in the stream of Huwawa and to pour out a libation of water to Shamash.
• Then the lady continued raising her glass, with solemn slowness, as though offering a religious libation to the mysterious power hidden in the North, far, far away.
• When he had poured out the libation, he at once led the two young men to Cheirisophus, and they repeated to him their story.
• The king pours a libation over a large bowl, fixed in a stand, immediately in front of a tall fire-altar, from which flames are rising.
• Close behind this stands the priest with a cup, from which we may suppose that the monarch will pour a second libation.
• Next we observe a bearded priest directly in front of the bull, checking the advance of the animal, which is not to be offered till the libation is over.
• She then compelled each of the three men priests to make the same libation.
• He must take the cup Of soldier-sacrament, and bind himself By thrice-performed libation to abide The fate he has invoked.
• Iphigenia bursts into a passionate lament, and the act ends with her offering a solemn libation to the shade of her brother.
• Shall he make a libation of the poison? In the spirit he will, but not in the letter.
• On the King hearing of the British victory, he went to pour libation to the spirits of his ancestors, and to ask their assistance against the enemies of his country.
• He promptly responded to the summons, and after a liberal libation from the neck of a bottle he seemed to forget all about us, for which we were duly thankful.
• At the other end of the panel a priestess pours a libation into an urn standing between two Double Axes, with birds perched upon them.
• Libation also formed part of the ceremonial, and on the same sarcophagus there are two scenes in which it occurs.
• The god is represented as upholding a libation vase with both hands, and pouring the life-giving water upon the king, standing, or prostrate, before him.
• On the ninth the famous libation was made for the souls of the departed.
• Ninth day of Greek Mysteries, the libation for departed souls, 434-m.
• The libation drew from our entrails a moment of delight and uplifting.
• No one refuses him, and he pretends to drink, then pours the wine on the ground by way of libation.
• The killing of the fowls, the sacrifice of the pig, and the libation of liquor are essentials at a Lynngam marriage.
• Do thou then at least slay me with my daughter, and there will be twice the libation of blood for the earth, and the dead who makes this request.
• This libation poured on the altar of liberty, he is popularly declared to be in the race.
• The guests followed the prayer, and then, sprinkling the wine on the table, they performed the wonted libation.
• Many of the slabs are slightly slanting, and it has been suggested that the series of holes and furrows was intended for the pouring a libation of some kind.
• Permit me to delay the answer only till I have poured libation on the turf here.

Similar words containing LIBA without suffix tion

libant8 libate8 libated10 libates9 celibacy17 celibate12 coolibah15 coolibar12 delibate11 libating11 libatory13 millibar12 olibanum12 celibates13 celibatic15 coolibahs16 coolibars13 delibated13 delibates12 libations11 millibars13 olibanums13 celibacies16 delibating14 delibation13 libational12 delibations14 libationary16 prelibation15 celibatarian16 prelibations16 celibatarians17

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