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Dotation vs Potation - What's the difference?

dotation | potation |

As nouns the difference between dotation and potation

is that dotation is the act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman while potation is (often|plural) the act of drinking.

dotation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of endowing, or bestowing a marriage portion on a woman.
  • Endowment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation.
  • As to eleemosynary corporations, by the dotation the founder and his heirs are of common right the legal visitors...
    (Webster 1913) ----

    potation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (often, plural) The act of drinking.
  • A drink, especially of an alcoholic beverage.
  • Quotations

    *1819 , , Ivanhoe , *:Perhaps his nocturnal potations , prevented him from recognising accents which were tolerably familiar to him.