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Drink
King James Dictionary
or DRINK, pret. and pp. drank. Old pret. And pp. drunk pp. Drunken. G. Drink and drench are radically the same word, and probably drown. We observe that n is not radical.
1. To swallow liquor, for quenching thirst or other purpose as, to drink of the brook.
Ye shall indeed drink of my cup. Matthew 20 .
2. To take spirituous liquors to excess to be intemperate in the use of spirituous liquors to be a habitual drunkard.
3. To feast to be entertained with liquors.
To drink to,
1. To salute in drinking to invite to drink by drinking first as, I drink to you grace.
2. To wish well to, in the act of taking the cup.
DRINK,
1. To swallow, as liquids to receive, as a fluid, into the stomach as, to drink water or wine.
2. To suck in to absorb to imbibe.
And let the purple violets drink the stream.
3. To take in by any inlet to hear to see as, to drink words or the voice.
I drink delicious poison from thy eye.
4. To take in air to inhale.
To drink down, is to act on by drinking to reduce or subdue as, to drink down unkindness.
To drink off, to drink the whole at a draught as, to drink off a cup of cordial.
To drink in, to absorb to take or receive into any inlet.
To drink up, to drink the whole.
To drink health, or to the health, a customary civility in which a person at taking a glass or cup, expresses his respect or kind wishes for another.
DRINK, n. Liquor to be swallowed any fluid to be taken into the stomach, for quenching thirst, or for medicinal purposes as water, wine, beer, cider, decoctions, &c.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Drink'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/d/drink.html.
