Libation
a sacrifice, by an actual drink offering, by pouring liquidsusually oil or wine on the ground in honor of a divinity, or by the combination of both methods. In classic times bloody sacrifices were usually accompanied by libations, which always formed movement instead of attempting to stem or lessen its progress. The Liberal party in English politics consists of two great sections or wings, generally in cooperation though sometimes in antagonism. These are the Whigs and the Radicals, the former seeking to remove the more obnoxious defects in the institutions of the country, with the view of insuring their stability; the latter, on the ceremonies at a e the Greek spondas from spando = to of Verg. Æn. v: 77; were usually of undos = merum), but honey, and other diluted with water The word "libain the Authorized races of the practice cob set up... a piled a drink ofpoured oil thereon" t of Latvia, on the by S. of Riga. It or, admitting vessels feet, and free from than 14 days in the consist of grain, linoil-cake, petroleum, hemp, etc. Since nt railroad con- Kharkov, and a naval catheand a school of dustries include iron oil-pressing, etc.
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