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

  • 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.”

    September « 2005 « So Many Books 2005

  • 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.”

    Vocabulary Building « So Many Books 2005

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  • Addicted to wine; intemperate or drunken.

    March 12, 2007