Prelibation

Word PRELIBATION
Character 11
Hyphenation pre li ba tion
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Prelibation"

What do we mean by prelibation?

A foretaste. noun

The act of tasting beforehand or by anticipation; a foretaste. noun

A previous libation; an offering made beforehand, as if in libation. noun

A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste. noun

A pouring out, or libation, before tasting. noun

A tasting beforehand, or by anticipation; a foretaste. noun

A pouring out, or libation, before tasting. noun

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The word "prelibation" in example sentences

I leave all this to the successor I pointed out in the commencement of this work, and satisfy myself merely with the prelibation, the right of the first comer to every sacrifice. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The horror of life mixed itself already in earliest youth with the heavenly sweetness of life; that grief, which one in a hundred has sensibility enough to gather from the sad retrospect of life in its closing stage, for me shed its dews as a prelibation upon the fountains of life whilst yet sparkling to the morning sun. ❋ Various (N/A)

Else I should plunge _in medias res_ upon a sketch of De Quincey's life; were it not a rudeness amounting to downright profanity to omit the important ceremony of prelibation, and that at a banquet to which, implicitly, gods are invited. ❋ Various (N/A)

Honorable Mrs. Scawen at Maidwell, and packing the "apparatus criticus" into the spacious saddle-bags; and we enjoy the prelibation with which ❋ Various (N/A)

The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and honey, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and rum. ❋ Grimke, Archibald H (1891)

The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and _honey_, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and _rum_. ❋ Archibald Henry Grimk�� (1889)

I am sure that to them the invocation of Beelzebub is a prelibation of carnality. ❋ Keene [Translator] Wallace (1877)

Those influences of the Spirit which believers now enjoy are at once a prelibation or antepast of future blessedness, the same in kind though immeasurably less in degree; and a pledge of the certain enjoyment of that blessedness. ❋ 1797-1878 (1860)

Here let me observe that for some time we had experienced the most uncomfortable weather, as a prelibation of our future sufferings. ❋ Unknown (1832)

The sorrow he felt before was only an earnest of this damnation, a taste and prelibation of future wrath. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

And it is to be noted that, from our insular situation, and the multitude of our frigates disposable for the rapid transmission of intelligence, rarely did any unauthorised rumour steal away a prelibation from the first aroma of the regular despatches. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

The progressive improvement of the human family is a delightful subject for meditation, giving us, perhaps, a prelibation of the joys of futurity, and animating us to contribute our aid, trifling as it may be, to the melioration of the condition of our country. ❋ Various (1821)

May it not be permitted me to add, that to be remembered, and celebrated in after ages, as the chosen vessel, by which it has pleased the Almighty Goodness to transmit so great a blessing to these nations, is a secret satisfaction, which is not forbidden you to take; the blessings of your people are a prelibation of the joys in heaven, and a lawful ambition here on earth. ❋ Dryden, John, 1631-1700 (1808)

Though by the way, let me whisper in your ear, (supposing you to be a Christian,) this would be a prelibation drawn prematurely from the cup of millennial happiness; and, strictly speaking, there is no great homage to religion, even thus far -- in figuring _that_ to be the purchase of man for himself, and through his own efforts, which is viewed by Scripture as a glory removed to the infinite and starry distance of a millennium, and as the ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

I was still anxious for her safety to an irrational extent; and to sum up the whole in a most weighty line of Shakspeare, I lived under the constant presence of a feeling which only that great observer of human nature (so far as I am aware) has ever noticed, viz., that merely the excess of my happiness made me jealous of its ability to last, and in that extent less capable of enjoying it; that in fact the prelibation of my tears, as a homage to its fragility, was drawn forth by my very sense that my felicity was too exquisite; or, in the words of the great master ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

But his other indiscretion, in having yielded so far to passion and opportunity as to crop by prelibation, and before they were hallowed, those flowers of paradise which belonged to his marriage day; this he adverts to with even more solemnity of sorrow, and with more pointed energy of moral reproof, in the very last drama which is supposed to have proceeded from his pen, and therefore with the force and sanctity of testamentary counsel. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

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