Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Full of wine.
- Intoxicated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Given to wine; drunken; intemperate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective fond of drinking
wine , especially to excess
Etymologies
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From Latin vinolentus, from vinum ‘wine’.
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Examples
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According to World Wide Words from whence I got this word, Chaucer uses it in Canterbury Tales: “In woman vinolent is no defence, This knowen lecchours by experience.”
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According to World Wide Words from whence I got this word, Chaucer uses it in Canterbury Tales: “In woman vinolent is no defence, This knowen lecchours by experience.”
reesetee commented on the word vinolent
Addicted to wine; intemperate or drunken.
March 12, 2007