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strong drink
Intoxicating liquor, alcoholic liquors generally. Also, drink of more than ordinary alcoholic strength.
In all Bible translations from Tindale onwards used to render Heb. shēkār and Gr. σίκερα.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. 749 Whan that a man is nat wont to strong drynke. 1526Tindale Luke i. 15 He..shall nether drynke wyne ner stronge drynke. 1530― Lev. x. 9. c 1645 Tullie Siege of Carlisle (1840) 48 Ye Garrison was every where full of strong drink. 1798R. Jackson Hist. & Cure Fever 283 Men, who oppress the functions of the alimentary canal with strong drink and gross aliment. 1890Besant Demoniac ii. 25 The craving..for strong drink had seized him again.
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1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 292 Such stronge drinkes as are of force to inebriate. 1680H. More Let. in R. Ward Life (1710) 355 It is..your constantly abstaining from all Strong Drinks, and using Moderate Drink, not too strong nor too small, that must contribute to the regaining of a due Temper of Body. |