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Definition of Overdrank
1. overdrink [v] - See also: overdrink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overdrank
Literary usage of Overdrank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, Rhode Island: Including a by Wilkins Updike, James MacSparran, Daniel Goodwin (1907)
"... whose Corn it seems was husked last Night, and its tho't the Fellow overdrank
him- •elf." 383 "John Potter." Among a half dozen John Potters living in ..."
2. A New Dictionary of the Italian and English Languages Based Upon that of by Giuseppe Marco Antonio Baretti, John Davenport, Guglielmo Comelati (1873)
"Overdone, a. e part, del verbo to overdo. ТЫ« meat is —, guetta carne è troppo
cotta. Overdose, a. dote troppo forte, (. overdrank, pass, del verbo to ..."
3. The History of Henry Fielding by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1918)
"Moderate in the use of wine, the boy once overdrank in his joy at the unexpected
recovery of Allworthy whose death sentence the doctor had pronounced; ..."
4. Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including an by Christian Isobel Johnstone, Johnstone, Mrs (1831)
"... although I dissuaded him to the contrary, overdrank himself, being perished
before with extreme thirst ; and, to my unspeakable grief and discomfort, ..."
5. Thómas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket, in Icelandic by Eiríkr Magnússon (1875)
"But the emperor Frederic rushes on headlong, overdrank with evil, in such wise,
that when one heretical pope tumbled alow, he raised up another, ..."
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