Ge-drincan

According to the Old English Dictionary:

ge-drincan

Add: I. absolute. (1) to take liquid as nourishment or to quench thirst :-- Þá hé þone mete bróhte, hé bróhte him eác wín. Þá hé hæfde gedruncn (quo hausto), Gen. 27, 25. (2) to drink intoxicating liquor convivially or for pleasure :-- Is tó wyrnanne bearn-eácnum wífe ꝥ hió áht sealtes ete . . . oþþe beór drince, ne swínes flǽsc ete . . ., ne druncen gedrince (get drunk), Lch. ii. 330, 8. II. trans.(l) to imbibe a liquid :-- Hé þone unlybban ealne gedranc. Hml. Th. i. 72, 25. Ðæs wóses geswéttes mid hunige gedrinc bollan fulne, Lch. ii. 30, 25. (2) to swallow the contents of a vessel :-- Hé sende him glæsfat full wínes, and ꝥ se bysceop gebletsade. Sóna swá hé hit gedruncen hæfde misit ei calicem uini benedictum ab episcopo; quem ut bibit, Bd. 5, 5; Sch. 572, 8. III. to absorb :-- In gedrincaþ combiberint, contraxerint, Germ. 391, 18. [Goth. ga-driggkjan: O.Sax. gi-drinkan : O. H. Ger. ge-trinchen.] ge-drincan