Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete (Middle English) form of
drunken .
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Examples
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It's good to see all of you having such a dronken good time!
Dust Bunny Meet Ups - Night One Zombie Mom 2009
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And thanne wolde he maken hem to drynken of certeyn drynk, where of anon thei scholden be dronken.
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And zif here fadre had not ben dronken, he hadde not y leye with hem.
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I have dronken there of 3 or 4 sithes; and zit, me thinkethe, I fare the better.
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And at morwe, whan he fond the heremyte ded, he was fulle sory and wrothe, and wolde have don his men to dethe: but they alle with on accord seyd, that he him self had slayn him, when he was dronken, and schewed him his swerd alle blody: and he trowed, that thei hadden seyd sothe.
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And the cause whi his doughtres made him dronken, and for to ly by him, was this; because thei sawghe no man aboute hem, but only here fadre: and therfore thei trowed, that God had destroyed alle the world, as he hadde don the cytees; as he hadde don before, be Noes flood.
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And the folk of that contree ben lyghtly dronken, and han but litille appetyt to mete: and thei han comounly the flux of the wombe: and thei lyven not longe.
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In that cytee Lothe dwelte, a lytylle while; and there was he made dronken of his doughtres, and lay with hem, and engendred of hem
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And thei wil ben lightly dronken of mylk, or of another drynk, that is made of hony and of watre soden to gidre.
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For zif thei dronken it openly, thei scholde ben repreved.
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