▪ I. propine, n.1 Sc. Obs. or arch.
(prəʊˈpaɪn)
[a. obs. F. propine (16th c. in Godef.) ‘drinking money, or somewhat to drinke’ (Cotgr.), f. propiner to propine; so Sp. propina a present, a ‘tip’, It. propina a drinking, a ‘health’.]
† 1. Drink-money. Obs.
[This is etymologically the earlier sense, but early evidence for it in Sc. has not been found.]
| 1638 Rutherford Lett. 11 June (1664) 230 To love the bridegroom better then his gifts, his propines, or drink-money. |
2. A thing presented as a gift; a present.
In the first quotation a present of wine.
| 1448 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 17 To mak a propyne to our souerane lord the Kingis welcum..of twa tunnes of Gascoene wyne. 1473 Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 169 He sal gyue to ws in name of propyne a ra or a buk. 1557–75 Diurn. Occurr. (Bann. Club) 67 With ane coffer quhairin wes the copburd and propyne quhilk suld be propynit to hir hienes. 1598 J. Melvill (title) A Spirituall Propine of a Pastour to his People. a 1619 W. Cowper Heaven Opened ii. Ded., That I haue conioyned your Maiesties in the participation of this small propine of the first fruits of my labours. 1818 Scott Hrt. Midl. xxxix, We maun think of some propine for her, since her kindness hath been great. 1849 Mrs. A. S. Menteath Lays Kirk & Covt. (1892) 39 'Twas my first hansel and propine to heaven. |
3. The power to give; gift, disposal. rare. (Doubtfully correct.)
| a 1803 Lady Anne vii. in Child Ballads i. (1882) 227/2 If I were thine, and in thy propine, O what wad ye do to me? 1813 Picken Poems II. 71 The richest gift in Heaven's propine. |
▪ II. propine, n.2 Chem.
(ˈprəʊpaɪn)
[f. as propane + -ine5 2.]
Hofmann's systematic name for the gaseous hydrocarbon C3H4, the tri-carbon member of the acetylene series, CnH2n-2; usually called allylene, and formerly also propinene.
| 1866 Hofmann in Proc. Royal Soc. XV. 58 note. 1873 Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 11) 558 Ethine and propine are gaseous at ordinary temperatures. 1877 Ibid. (ed. 12) II. 63 Allylene or propine C3H4..is produced by the action of sodium ethylate on bromopropene. |
▪ III. propine, v. Chiefly Sc. Obs. or arch.
(prəʊˈpaɪn)
Also 5–7 -pyne, 9 dial. -peyne.
[ad. L. propīn-āre to drink to one's health, pledge; to give to drink, administer, furnish, ad. Gr. προπίν-ειν lit. to drink before or above, to drink to another, to give one to drink, also to give freely, to present, f. πρό, pro-2 + πίνειν to drink.]
1. trans. To offer or give to drink; to present with (drink); fig. to offer or give (a ‘cup’ of affliction, etc.). Obs.
| c 1430 Lydg. Commend. our Lady viii. 52 Sum drope of graceful dewe to us propyne. 1563 Winȝet Wks. (S.T.S.) II. 27 Thai feir nocht to propyne the venum of hæresie til wtheris. a 1598 Rollock Passion ii. (1616) 21 The Father hath propined vnto mee a bitter cuppe of affliction. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 31 Whiles she propineth to the world the cup of her fornications. 1675 J. Smith Chr. Relig. Appeal ii. 25 That deadly Poyson of their Religion that was propined from the Stage. a 1713 Pitcairn in Maidment Scot. Pasquils (1868) 317 A health to the King I do thee propine. |
2. To offer for acceptance or as a present; to present; to put before one, propose.
Perhaps first said of a present of wine.
| c 1450 Lovelich Grail xvii. 118 My grete veniaunce & my gret discipline, With my strengthe to ȝow it schal propine. 1500–20 Dunbar Poems lxxvii. 61 Ane riche present thay did till hir propyne. 1526 Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 115 That thar be propynit to the kingis grace..sax potionis of wyne. c 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 34 Of thair prettick to me ane point propyne. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. viii. 92 The king propynet him the cuntries Knapden and Kintyr. a 1619 M. Fotherby Atheom. i. ii. §2 (1622) 11 Vnlesse we would propine, both our selues, and our cause, vnto open and iust derision. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv. rule ii. §19 It propines to us the noblest, the highest, and the bravest pleasures of the world. 1807 J. Stagg Poems 67 Our past misfortunes we'd propeyne T' oblivion. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xxxii, In expectation of the ample donation, or soul-scat, which Cedric had propined. |
3. To present (a person) with something; to endow, reward.
| c 1450 Lovelich Merlin 6506 For mochel worschepe by hym schalt þou se And ful gret encres to the and thyne, And thow hit worschepe & hit propyne. 1554 Edin. Counc. Rec. 29 Dec. II. lf. 39 (MS.) An vther goblet, with which to propine the Quenis Grace. a 1598 Rollock Passion ii. (1616) 22 If the Lord propine thee with a cup of affliction. a 1670 Spalding Troub. Chas. I (Spald. Cl.) II. 86 He, with his Quene..wes bankettit.., and thairefter propynit with 20,000 lib. sterling in ane fair coup of gold. a 1758 Ramsay Three Bonnets 62 And bought frae..Bawsy, His [bonnet]. to propine a giglet lassie. 1895 Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xlix, Bless God that you have had a husband..to propine Him with. |
4. a. trans. To wish (health or the like) to some one in drinking. b. intr. To address a pledge or toast to; to drink a health to.
| a 1770 C. Smart Hop Garden i. Poems (1810) 38/1 The lovely sorceress mix'd, and to the prince Health, peace and joy propin'd. 1887 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 402 And thus did he to the king propine: ‘Long live the King!’ |
Hence † proˈpiner Obs. rare—1, one who ‘propines’, offers, or gives.
| 1589 Bruce Serm. (Wodrow Soc.) 26 There is twa propiners, twa personis that offeris and givis the Sacrament. |