[ad. L. compōtātiōn-em drinking together (in Cic., transl. Gr. συμπόσιον), n. of action from *compōtāre, compōtāt-, f. com- + pōtāre to drink: cf. Fr. compotation and POTATION.] A drinking or tippling together, drinking-bout, carouse, symposium.
1593. Bacchus Bountie, in Harl. Misc. (1809), II. 272. His hot compotations in the day.
1636. Healey, Epictetus’s Man., xlv. 66. Avoid the vulgar banquets, revels and compotations.
1702. Statesmen Abingdon, 4. Their Spirits were a little elevated in a chearful Compotation.
1862. S. Lucas, Secularia, 101. A stately compotation with the Abbot.
Hence Compotationship (bad).
1825. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XVII. 109/2. It may be imagined that our well-known, our universally proclaimed, our much-boasted-of affection, friendship, and compotationship with Hogg, may warp us into giving him an undue preference in this our closecoming contrast; but we here most solemnly assert, that we shall banish all such considerations from our minds, and be as impartial as Rhadamanthus, the son of Jupiter and Europa.
