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Definition: To drink to
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.
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Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
--Luke xvii.
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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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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.
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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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