Hypertext Webster Gateway: "drunken"

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)

Drunken \Drunk"en\, a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p.
p. of drincan, taken as active. See {Drink}, v. i., and cf.
{Drunk}.]
1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by,
spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. --
Bacon.

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood. -- Shak.

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

The drunken quarrels of a rake. -- Swift.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

drunken
adj : given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a
bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy
drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken
binge"; "two drunken gentleman holding each other up";
"sottish behavior" [syn: {bibulous}, {boozy}, {sottish}]

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