Lexicographical Neighbors of Libate
Literary usage of Libate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sanskrit Grammar: Including Both the Classical Language, and the Older by William Dwight Whitney (1896)
"... libate 613. Examples of the 3d sing. mid. coincident in form with the 1st
sing, are not rare in the older ..."
2. Greek dramas, tr. by J.B. Rose (1872)
"One only brother—who is gone To Hades and the dreary throne— And this cup, with
pious care, I libate to soothe him there. I upon the earth must cast Blood ..."
3. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"... and see if you cannot find a happy word in it for me?" He took the cup, and
stooped to refill it. " A son of Israel has no gods whom he can libate," ..."
4. Journal of Biblical Literature by Society of Biblical Literature (1906)
"... pour out, libate'= Aram. pTp. The ideogram is DUB = dub, Br. 3929, from the
idea of 'plenty,' attributed to DUB from its primitive sense ' surround, ..."
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