Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit and past participle of drench.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle obsolete Drenched; drowned.
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Examples
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Fire-brent and drent in tear-flood flowing infinite:
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Fire-brent and drent in tear-flood flowing infinite:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Couille kalmuch monach drupp del meupplist rincq drlnd dodelb up drent loch minc stz rinq jald de vins ders cordelis bur jocst stzampenards. '
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Couille kalmuch monach drupp del meupplist rincq drlnd dodelb up drent loch minc stz rinq jald de vins ders cordelis bur jocst stzampenards.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Couille kalmuch monach drupp del meupplist rincq drlnd dodelb up drent loch minc stz rinq jald de vins ders cordelis bur jocst stzampenards.’
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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4.29.17: O miserable mindes O hertes in folly drent
Gammerstang commented on the word drent
(adjective) - Drowned; from Scottish drencean; 1300s-1500s.
--William Toone's Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete Words, 1832
January 22, 2018