单词 | vinolent |
释义 | vinolentadj. Addicted to drinking wine; tending to drunkenness. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > alcoholic or addicted to drinking > specific drink vinolentc1384 vinal1652 vinous1816 vinose1826 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus i. 7 It bihoueth a bischop for to be withoute crime,..not proud, not wrathful, not vynolent, that is, moche ȝouun to wyn. c1386 G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prol. 467 In wommen vinolent is no defence, This knowen lecchours by experience. c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale 223 They ben..Al vinolent as botel in the spence. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 5758 For man or woman þat is vinolent Is verreyly a beste vnresonable. c1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine iv. 1533 Venus was lecherous and also vynolent. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. Civv There is no secrete, with people vynolent [printed vyuolent] By beestly surfet, the lyfe is breuyate. 1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. B3 Ȝe sulde nocht chuse, vnto that cure Ane Vinolent, nor wod Pasture. 1656 in T. Blount Glossographia 1837 C. A. Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 80 (note) The vinolent propensity of the Athenian females. Derivatives ˈvinolentness n. rare drunkenness.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.c1384 |
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