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† aˈdrench, v. Obs.
Forms: inf. 1 adrenc-an, 2– adrenche(n. pa. tense 1–3 adrenc-te, 2–3 adrengte, adrente, adreinte; 4 adraynte, 4–5 adreynte. pa. pple. 1 adrenc-ed, 2–3 adrenct, adrent, adreint; 4–5 adreynt, adraynt.
[f. a- prefix 1 intensive + drench, OE. drencan, causal deriv. of drink. Cf. Ger. ertränken.]
lit. and fig. throughout.
1. To give to drink.
1340Ayenb. 92 He uoluelþ þe herte of loue..and him adrengþ of ane zuetnesse wonderuol. Ibid. 251 And hire adraynkþ and makeþ him dronke of holy loue.
2. trans. To submerge, to drown.
a1000Ags. Met. Ps. cv. 10 Heora feondas flód adrencte. c1150Cott. Hom. 225 Ic nelle henon forð mancyn míd watere adrenche. c1175Lamb. Hom. 141 Heo wende to gederes, and adreinte pharao. 1297R. Glouc. 437 Hys sones were ȝut alyue, þat adrencte were atte laste. 1387Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 195 Helle was adraynt in that see [submersa]. 1494Fabyan v. cxxx. 112 Y⊇ last bishop was a dreynte.
3. refl. To drown (oneself).
c1230Ancren Riwle 230 Te swin anonriht urnen & adreinten ham suluen iðer see. 1340Ayenb. 50 An ȝuo moche drinke; þet hy ham adrencheþ. 1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle i. xiii. (1859) 10 Adrenchyng hym self, as it were, in worldly vanyte.
4. intr. (by omission of refl. pron.) To be drowned, or drown; to perish in the water; to ‘go down,’ as a ship. (In this const. it = adrink, and often interchanges with it; see first quot.)
1205Layamon 2206 Ferde into ane watere · þer inne he adronc [1250 a-dreint]. c1230Ancren Riwle 220 Þer adreinte Pharao, & hore uoan alle. c1305Pilate in E.E.P. (1862) 118 Þo com þer a gret tempest..Þat schipes adreynte þere menie on. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 408 And men þat maden it · amydde þe flode adreynten. |