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ˌover-ˈdrink, v.
[OE. oferdrincan = OHG. ubartrinchan, MHG. übertrinken, Du. (zich) overdrinken; f. ofer-, over- 27 + drincan to drink. The 16th c. use may be a new formation: cf. overeat v.]
intr. and refl. To drink too much, drink to excess or to intoxication.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xlix. 381 Swa hwa swa oðerne drencð, he wirð self oferdruncen. c1000Eccl. Inst. c. 40 in Thorpe Laws II. 438 Ne oferdrincað ᵹe eow wines. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706) 69 Ashamed to over-drink himself. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Ark 541 Noah..One-day..making merry drinking, over-drunk. 1626Bacon Sylva §462 Cucumbers..doe extremely affect Moisture; And over-drinke themselves. 1730Burdon Pocket Farrier (1735) 21 If he..is hot, he will over-drink himself. 1865Mill in Even. Star 10 July, It did not say that they were to over-eat and over-drink themselves. 1904‘J. O. Hobbes’ Vineyard iv. 55 They over-eat and over-drink, and they try to forget what they really want. 1932Kipling Limits & Renewals 79, I steadily overdrank for a fortnight out of pure hunger. 1952H. Waugh Last seen Wearing (1953) 53 She..says he's a show-off and over⁓drinks. 1967N. Freeling Strike Out 29 Typical Bavarian, overate, overdrank, no exercise. 1976Times 20 Oct. 14/3 Many of us over-eat, over-drink, and over-smoke.
So ˈoverdrink n., drinking to excess, drunkenness; ˌover-ˈdrinking vbl. n.
[c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xviii. 129 Behealdað eow ðæt ᵹe ne ᵹehefeᵹien eowre heortan mid oferæte & oferdrynce.] c1175Lamb. Hom. 153 Hwenne þe muð..suneȝeð on muchele ete and on ouer drinke. a1902S. Butler Way of all Flesh (1903) vi. 23 Even his excellent constitution was not proof against..over⁓feeding and what we should now consider overdrinking. 1906Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 2/3 The Bishop of Oxford, in the protest..against the over-drinking of healths, appears to think that little was done in the way of similar protest between the far-off days of King Ahasuerus..and those of Queen Victoria. 1907Ibid. 29 Oct. 12/1 The publicans are held responsible for the over-drinking of their customers. 1928J. J. Walsh Catholic Church & Healing vi. 66 Bartholomew was aware, moreover, that insanity may come from overeating as well as from the overdrinking of strong wine. 1951T. Sterling House without Door vii. 89 Her hands..had that luminous, slightly puffy look which comes from overdrinking. 1974E. Brawley Rap (1975) 4 And her mother..had followed him two years later of love and overdrink. 1977Times 7 Sept. 7/6 A first line of recovery from over-drink. |