† 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.
| 1340 Ayenb. 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.
| a 1000 Ags. Met. Ps. cv. 10 Heora feondas flód adrencte. c 1150 Cott. Hom. 225 Ic nelle henon forð mancyn m{iacu}d watere adrenche. c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 141 Heo wende to gederes, and adreinte pharao. 1297 R. Glouc. 437 Hys sones were ȝut alyue, þat adrencte were atte laste. 1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. I. 195 Helle was adraynt in that see [submersa]. 1494 Fabyan v. cxxx. 112 Y⊇ last bishop was a dreynte. |
3. refl. To drown (oneself).
| c 1230 Ancren Riwle 230 Te swin anonriht urnen & adreinten ham suluen iðer see. 1340 Ayenb. 50 An ȝuo moche drinke; þet hy ham adrencheþ. 1413 Lydg. 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.)
| 1205 Layamon 2206 Ferde into ane watere · þer inne he adronc [1250 a-dreint]. c 1230 Ancren Riwle 220 Þer adreinte Pharao, & hore uoan alle. c 1305 Pilate in E.E.P. (1862) 118 Þo com þer a gret tempest..Þat schipes adreynte þere menie on. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 408 And men þat maden it · amydde þe flode adreynten. |