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- verb Obsolete spelling of
drunk .
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Examples
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In colonial Maryland, whites complained to judicial authorities that slaves were “drunke on the Lords Day beating their Negro drums by which they call considerable Number of Negroes together in some Certaine places.”
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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In his "History of the Plymouth Plantation," Bradford bitterly fingers the Friendship's crew, writing that the Metheglin had been "drunke up under the name of leakage, and so lost."
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“It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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“It will not suffer milk to cruddle in the stomach, and therefore it is put in milk that is drunke… Spearmint” Gaius Plinius Secundus - Naturalis Historia 77CE
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We live as if we are scared of our selves, scared our boss might see the drunke ...
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(For those that are Christians among them, as namely the Russians, Grecians, and Alanians, who keep their own law very strictly, wil in no case drinke thereof, yea, they accompt themselues no Christians after they haue once drunke of it, and their priests reconcile them vnto the Church as if they had renounced the Christian faith.)
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And hauing drunke off one flagon of our wine they demanded another, saying, that a man goeth not into the house with one foote.
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After I had drunke thereof I sweat most extreamly for the nouelty and strangenes, because I neuer dranke of it before.
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Likewise by the sayd cisterne there is drinke conueyed thorow certeine pipes and conducts, such as vseth to be drunke in the emperors court, vpon the which also there hang many vessels of golde, wherein, whosoeuer will may drinke of the sayd licour.
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And when the master hath drunke, then cries out his seruant as before, and the minstrell stayeth his musique.
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