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Potion (n.)
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Definition
A drink, draught, dose of medicine in liquid form, often possessing lethal or magical powers.
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A POTION and a DRAUGHT are both an amount drunk. The word DRAUGHT is today the more general of the two. POTION is often reserved for a drink of medicine. The OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY goes to the extreme of limiting POTION to this specific use and of designating as obsolete the general meaning, any drink. DRINK is, however, accepted as the meaning of POTION by 78 percent of adult readers. Listen
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