v. [A bombastic or humorous diminutive from L. bib-ĕre to drink, with reference to BIBBLE, BIBULOUS.] trans. To bibble or tipple. So Bibulant a. and sb., Bibulation sb.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 29. I bibulated [it].
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 866. We bibulate gin and water with the housekeeper.
1851. Portsmith Inquirer, 14 July, 1/3. Mr. Ferguson, a noted bibulant, was lately smitten with the ‘gold fever.’
1883. Boston Herald, Corresp., Bibulants will even buy alcohol, dilute it and drink it.
1882. St. James’s Gaz., 12 April, 5. The extraordinary capacity for bibulation displayed by the regular soldier.
