Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drunk"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Drunk
The first case of intoxication on record is that of Noah (Gen.
9:21). The sin of drunkenness is frequently and strongly
condemned (Rom. 13:13; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thess. 5:7,
8). The sin of drinking to excess seems to have been not
uncommon among the Israelites.
The word is used figuratively, when men are spoken of as being
drunk with sorrow, and with the wine of God's wrath (Isa. 63:6;
Jer. 51:57; Ezek. 23:33). To "add drunkenness to thirst" (Deut.
29:19, A.V.) is a proverbial expression, rendered in the Revised
Version "to destroy the moist with the dry", i.e., the
well-watered equally with the dry land, meaning that the effect
of such walking in the imagination of their own hearts would be
to destroy one and all.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k),
formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken}
(-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely
used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually
intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p.
p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan,
D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan.
drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other
purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in
satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.
Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
--Luke xvii.
8.
He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi.
20.
Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble.
2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in
merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to
lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the
?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
--Pope.
And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem.
xliii. 34.
Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk
freely. --Thackeray.
{To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the
act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
I drink to the general joy of the whole table, And
to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drunk \Drunk\, a. [OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS.
druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See
{Drink}.]
1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated;
drunken; -- never used attributively, but always
predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. -- Eph.
v. 18.
Drunk with recent prosperity. --Macaulay.
2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. -- Deut.
xxxii. 42.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Drunk \Drunk\, n.
A drunken condition; a spree. [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
drunk
adj 1: stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially
alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors";
"helplessly inebriated" [syn: {intoxicated}, {inebriated}]
[ant: {sober}]
2: as if under the influence of alcohol; "felt intoxicated by
her success"; "drunk with excitement" [syn: {intoxicated}]
n 1: a chronic drinker [syn: {drunkard}, {rummy}, {sot}, {inebriate}]
2: someone who is intoxicated
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