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What is a libation?

What is a libation? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The act of pouring a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity.
  2. The wine or liquid thus poured out.
  3. (humorous) A beverage, especially an alcoholic one.
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She holds a vessel in one hand and a cloth in another as she pours a libation before him.
Other participants perform libation using Scotch or other similar liquor by pouring from a ram's horn.
The Hittite supplication scene depicts the libation of wine from a beak-spouted vessel.
Originally, he may have been pouring a libation from a patera, as is common in similar sacrifice scenes belonging to this iconographic topos.
The condensed milk and corn syrup libation was the only kiddy cocktail of the four that was not actively nauseating.
Later in the same night, on their return from their spying mission, he and Diomedes sit down to dine, drink, and pour a libation again.

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