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   Drink , v. i. [imp. Drank , formerly Drunk ; & p. p. Drunk, Drunken ; 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.]
   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.
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   Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
   Luke xvii. 8.
   
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   He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty.
   Job xxi. 20.
   
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   Drink of the cup that can not cloy.
   Keble.
   
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   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 use of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
   Pope.
   
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   And they drank, and were merry with him.
   Gem. xliii. 34.
   
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   Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
   Thackeray.
   
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   To drink to, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.
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   I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
   And to our dear friend Banquo.
   Shak.
   
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   Drunken , a. [AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.]
   Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
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   Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.
    Bacon.
   
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   Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
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   Let the earth be drunken with our blood.
    Shak.
   
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   Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
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   The drunken quarrels of a rake.
    Swift.
   
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