compotation

Learned borrowing from Latin compōtātiō. Equivalent to com- +‎ potation.

compotation (countable and uncountable, plural compotations)

1. (archaic) The social act of drinking together.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     the fashion of compotation

• “compotation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.