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Old English
Etymology
for- + drenċan
Pronunciation
Verb
fordrenċan
- to get someone drunk
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 19:31-32
Þā cwæþ sēo ieldre dohtor tō hire ġingran sweostor, "Ūre fæder is eald mann, and nān ōðer wer ne belāf on ealre eorðan þe unc mæġe habban. Uton fordrenċan ūrne fæder fǣrlīċe mid wīne and uton liċġan mid him, þæt sumu lāf bēo his cynnes."- Then the older daughter said to her younger sister, "Our father is an old man, and there's no other men left in the world who can have us. Let's get him drunk on wine and sleep with him, so his family line can survive."
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