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Strong drink. World English Historical Dictionary

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Strong drink. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Strong drink Intoxicating liquor, alcoholic liquors generally. Also, drink of more than ordinary alcoholic strength.

1   In all Bible translations from Tindale onwards used to render Heb. shēkār and Gr. σίκερα.

2 c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pars. T., 749. Whan that a man is nat wont to strong drynke.

3 1526.  Tindale, Luke i. 15. He … shall nether drynke wyne ner stronge drynke. Ibid. (1530), Lev. x. 9.

4 c. 1645.  Tully, Siege of Carlisle (1840), 48. Ye Garrison was every where full of strong drink.

5 1798.  R. Jackson, Hist. & Cure Fever, 283. Men, who oppress the functions of the alimentary canal with strong drink and gross aliment.

6 1890.  Besant, Demoniac, ii. 25. The craving … for strong drink had seized him again.

7   b.  With a and pl.

8 1555.  Eden, Decades (Arb.), 292. Such stronge drinkes as are of force to inebriate.

9 1680.  H. More, Lett., in R. Ward, Life (1710), 355. It is … your constantly abstaining from all Strong Drinks, and using Moderate Drink, not too strong nor too small, that must contribute to the regaining of a due Temper of Body.

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