Supernaculum

And the picture of the banquet "when they fell to the chat of the afternoon's collation and began great goblets to ring, great bowls to ting, great gammons to trot; pour me out the fair Greek wine, the extravagant wine, the good wine, Lacrima Christi, supernaculum!" ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)

With agony he had observed that supernaculum was his miserable lot. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

The cup was in Vivian's hand, Rudesheimer was roaring supernaculum louder than all; Vivian saw that the covetous ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

One pull, a gasp, another desperate draught; it was done! and followed by a supernaculum almost superior to the exulting ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

"Look at this precious phial, the incomparable elixir, the pabulum of life, the grand arcanum, the supernaculum, the mother and regenerator of nature, the source and the womb of all existence, past, present, and to come!" ❋ John Roby (1821)

To drink _supernaculum_ is to empty the cup so thoroughly that the last drop or "pearl," drained on to the nail, retains its shape, and does not run. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)

The custom of drinking _supernaculum_, consisted in turning down the cup upon the thumb-nail of the drinker after his pledge, when, if duly quaffed off, no drop of liquor ought to appear upon his nail. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

He drank thy health five times, _supernaculum_, [2] to my son Brain-sick; and dipt my daughter Pleasance's little finger, to make it go down more glibly: [3] And, before George, I grew tory rory, as they say, and strained a brimmer through the lily-white smock, i'faith. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

When I was a [young buck], I could [put away] the beer. Shit, I used to drink [supernaculum]. ❋ Weave (2003)