a. [ OE. dronke, drunke, dronken, drunken, AS. druncen. Orig. the same as drunken, p. p. of drink. See Drink. ]
Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]
Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A drunken condition; a spree. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Drunk + -ard. ] One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. [ 1913 Webster ]
The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk. ]
Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Drunkenness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a drunken manner. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South.