Religious Rites

noun an act of pouring a drink as an offering

• During the ceremony, the priest poured a libation as an offering to the gods.
• Let's raise a glass and pour a libation to celebrate this special occasion.
• I'll grab some beers and we can make a libation to kick off the party.
• Her tears fell like a libation, a symbolic offering of her grief and sorrow.

noun a word that represents a person, place, thing, or idea

verb a word that expresses an action, occurrence, or state of being

adverb a word that modifies a verb, adjective, or other adverb, indicating manner, time, place, or degree

preposition a word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence

• The deceased was lying in repose at the funeral home, surrounded by flowers and candles.
• I saw the body lying in repose at the viewing yesterday.
• Yo, did you check out the body lying in repose at the wake?
• The old traditions of chivalry and honor lay in repose, forgotten by modern society.