All 9 Uses of

cordial

in

Ulysses, by James Joyce

He smellsipped the cordial juice and, bidding his throat strongly to speed it, set his wineglass delicately down.†
Chpt 8

cordial = friendly

The viceroy was most cordially greeted on his way through the metropolis.†
Chpt 10 *

cordially = in a friendly way

The delegation partook of luncheon at the conclusion of which the dusky potentate, in the course of a happy speech, freely translated by the British chaplain, the reverend Ananias Praisegod Barebones, tendered his best thanks to Massa Walkup and emphasised the cordial relations existing between Abeakuta and the British empire, stating that he treasured as one of his dearest possessions an illuminated bible, the volume of the word of God and the secret of England's greatness, graciously presented to him by the white chief woman, the great squaw Victoria, with a personal dedication from the august hand of the Royal Donor.†
Chpt 12

cordial = friendly

The ceremony which went off with great éclat was characterised by the most affecting cordiality.†
Chpt 12

cordiality = friendliness

Here the listener who was none other than the Scotch student, a little fume of a fellow, blond as tow, congratulated in the liveliest fashion with the young gentleman and, interrupting the narrative at a salient point, having desired his visavis with a polite beck to have the obligingness to pass him a flagon of cordial waters at the same time by a questioning poise of the head (a whole century of polite breeding had not achieved so nice a gesture) to which was united an equivalent but contrary balance of the bottle asked the narrator as plainly as was ever done in words if he might treat him with a cup of it.†
Chpt 14

cordial = friendly

With these words he approached the goblet to his lips, took a complacent draught of the cordial, slicked his hair and, opening his bosom, out popped a locket that hung from a silk riband, that very picture which he had cherished ever since her hand had wrote therein.†
Chpt 14

The reason he mentioned the fact was that a lot of those policemen, whom he cordially disliked, were admittedly unscrupulous in the service of the Crown and, as Mr Bloom put it, recalling a case or two in the A division in Clanbrassil street, prepared to swear a hole through a ten gallon pot.†
Chpt 16

Definitions:

(1) (cordial as in: a cordial reception)
friendly -- usually warm and heartfelt, but possibly only polite
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, "cordial" can refer to a sweet drink. The drink can be non-alcoholic or alcoholic depending upon region and context.