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▪ I. † caˈrouse, adv. Obs.
Also garaus, carous.
[a. Ger. gar aus, in gar-aus trinken to drink ‘all out’, to empty the bowl. Cf. all out, the English phrase in same sense. In 16th c. F., Rabelais has boire carrous et alluz.]
In the phrase to drink, quaff (pledge one) carouse: i.e. to the bottom, to drink a full bumper to his health.
1567Drant Horace Ep. i. 18 The tiplinge sottes at mid⁓night which to quaffe carowse do vse. 1586T. B. tr. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589) 193 Rather than they wil refuse to drink carouse. 1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood (1874) 43 His hostesse pledg'd him not carouse [rime house]. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxvii. i, Some againe drinking garaus. 1667E. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. i. (1684) 40.
▪ II. carouse, n.|kəˈraʊz|
Forms: (6 garouse), 6–7 carous, car(r)owse, -ouse, 7 car(r)ousse, carrouze, (caraus, garaus, -ausse, karausse), 7–9 carouze, 6– carouse.
[The prec. adv. in phrase to drink carouse, taken for obj. of the vb.: cf. F. une carrousse, Sp. carauz, also from Ger. The word formerly rimed with house, mouse; the pronunciation (-aʊz) appeared first in the vb., c 1660 (cf. grass, graze, advice, advise, etc.), and subsequently spread to sense 3 of the n., taken as a deriv. of the vb.]
†1. The action or fashion of ‘drinking carouse’.
1559Mirr. Mag. 610 (R.) Lyæus fruitful cup with full carowse Went round about. 1600Rowlands Lett. Humours Blood vii. (1874) 13 Drinke some braue health vpon the Dutch carouse..Or visit Shorditch, for a bawdie house. 1611Rich Honest. Age (1844) Introd. 19 Their best was, I drinke to you, and I pledge yee; some shallow-witted drunkard found out the Carowse.
†2. A cupful drunk ‘all out’, a full draught of liquor, a full bumper to one's health, a toast. Obs. bef. 1700 (but used by Scott).
1594Drayton Ideas vii, Quaffing Carowses in this costly Wine. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 277 Quaffe carowses to our Mistresse health. 1611Rowland Four Knaves (1843) 13, I..will drinke a healths carouse. 1611Cotgr., Carous, a carousse of drinke. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. ii. iii. 86 All which garausses he must drinke. 1674Milton Hist. Mosc. Wks. 1738 II. 145 The Emperor standing up, drank a deep Carouse to the Queen's Health. 1813Scott Rokeby i. vii, Quaff the full carouze.
3. A drinking bout; a carousal; carousing.
1690W. Walker Idiomat. Anglo-Lat. 228 Bassus at the Thracian carowse. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 480 The early feast and late carouse. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike i. 8 To go to the Spread-eagle and have a carouse. 1851Longfellow Gold. Leg., Refectory ad fin., What means this revel and carouse?
▪ III. carouse, v.|kəˈraʊz|
Forms: 6 karous, garouse, carous, 6–7 carrouse, car(r)owse, 7 garousse, carrowze, -ouze, 7–8 carowze, -ouze, 6– carouse.
[f. carouse adv.: cf. F. carousser ‘to quaff, swill, carouse it’ (Cotgr.).]
1. intr. To drink ‘all out’, drink freely and repeatedly. So to carouse it.
1567Drant Horace Ep. xiv, I that in tune and out of time, karoust it without measure. 1596Raleigh Discov. Guiana (1848) 64 Some..garoused of his wine til they were reasonable pleasant. 1601Holland Pliny II. 349 To quaffe and carouse again vpon it more lustily. 1656Blount Glossogr., Carouse..to drink all out. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. xv. 173 To procure Wine and carouze with him, which they did, and he got beastly drunk. 1779Johnson L.P., Thomson Wks. IV. 167 Thomson..carousing with lord Hertford and his friends. 1827Pollock Course T. iv, Drinking from the well of life, And yet carousing in the cup of death. 1875B. Taylor Faust I. vi. 102
b. To drink a bumper to (any one), to drink health or success to.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. (1877) i. 107 Swilling, gulling and carowsing from one to another. 1594Lyly Moth. Bomb. ii. i. 92, I carouse to Prisius, and brinch you mas Sperantius. 1604Shakes. Ham. v. ii. 300 (2nd Qo.) The Queene Carowses [1st Qo. drinkes] to thy fortune Hamlet.
†2. trans. To drink off or up, to drain, to quaff, to swill; to drink (a health). Obs.
1580Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 432 The Glasses wher-in you carouse your wine. 1604Shakes. Oth. ii. iii. 55 Roderigo..To Desdemona hath to night Carrows'd Potations, pottle-deepe. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 162 Some Gentlewomen were so free in this excesse, as they would..garousse health after health with men. 1683Tryon Way to Health 168 To Carrouze strong Drink, Brandy, Wine. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 545 Egypt's wanton queen, Carousing gems.
b. fig.
1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 23 Carrouse vp your owne quarrels in the cup. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. i. 20 Why doe we thus..carouse full Bowles Of boyling anguish? 1660W. Secker Nonsuch Prof. 11 If the Cup be lawful we must not carouze it. |