Obs. [n. of action f. ēpōtāre: see next.] The action of drinking up or off.

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1627–77.  Feltham, Resolves, I. lxxxiv. 128. The Epotations of dumb liquor damn him.

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1660.  Character of Italy, 55. There is by their epotation laid the seed of all future maladies.

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