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noun (English)
1. (archaic, also figurative) A dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.Examples: "[T]hey need not carry ſuch an unvvorthy ſuſpicion over the Preachers of Gods vvord, as to tutor their unſoundneſſe vvith the Abcie of a Liturgy, or to diet their ignorance, and vvant of care, vvith the limited draught of a Mattin, and even ſong drench."; "Let ſuch bethink them, if the ſleepy drench / Of that forgetful Lake benumme not ſtill, / That in our proper motion we aſcend / Up to our native ſeat: deſcent and fall / To us is adverſe."; "Corpulence is a beauty: girls are fattened to a vast bulk by drenches of curds and cream thickened with flour, and are duly disciplined when they refuse."alsoarchaicfiguratively
2. (veterinary medicine) A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.Examples: "O my ſvveet Harry ſaies ſhe! hovv manie haſt thou kild to day? Giue my roane horſe a drench (ſayes hee) and aunſvveres ſome foureteene, an houre after: a trifle, a trifle."; "It [siler] ſtaieth the gurrie or running out of the belly in foure-footed beaſts, vvhether it bee given ſtamped by vvay of a drench and ſo injected, or chevved drie among their meat vvith ſalt."; "A Drench of VVine has vvith ſucceſs been us'd; / And through a Horn, the gen'rous Juice infus'd: / VVhich timely taken op'd his cloſing Javvs; / But, if too late, the Patient's [a horse's] death did cauſe."
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]"; "But music alone, would not do—Some roast-beef was a necessary article, and some wine, to feed and drench the actors."; "A stranger maiden, passing fair, / Had drenched him with a beverage rare;— […]"transitive
2. (transitive)specificallytransitive
3. (transitive)Examples: "That our Garments being (as they were) drencht in the Sea, hold notwithſtanding their freſhneſſe and gloſſes, being rather new dy'de then ſtain'd with ſalte water."; "Deſolations by vvarrs; hovv many fields have been drencht vvith blood, and compoſted vvith carcaſſes; hovv many Millions of men have been cut off in all ages by the edge of the ſvvord?"; "Novv dam the Ditches, and the Floods reſtrain: / Their moiſture has already drench'd the Plain."Synonyms: bedrenchtransitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "VVhat flames (q[uo]d he) vvhen I thee preſent ſee, / In daunger rather to be drent, then brent?"; "He lookt a little further, and eſpyde / Another vvretch, vvhoſe carcas deepe vvas drent / VVithin the riuer, vvhich the ſame did hyde: […]"; "Her, vvhom his furie hath from earth exil'd, / And in the ſtrangling vvaters drencht his child; […]"Synonyms: endrench, indrenchobsoletetransitive
5. (transitive)figurativelyobsoletetransitive
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.Examples: "Alas, now drencheth my ſwete fo, / That with the ſpoyle of my hart did go, / And left me but (alas) why did he ſo?"intransitiveobsolete
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