Obs. exc. arch. [ad. L. lībāmentum, f. lībā-re to LIBATE + -MENT.] = LIBATION.
1582. N. T. (Rhem.), Luke xxii. 17, note. That solemne cuppe of wine, which belonged as a libament to the offering and eating to the Paschal lambe.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 1289. Before his time they dranke it [wine] not at all, neither made they libaments thereof unto their gods.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 324. Andromache was pouring libaments To th’ ashes.
