a. Obs. [OE. wíndruncen = Du. wijndroncken (Kilian), G. weintrunken, ON. víndrukkinn.] Drunk (with wine). Hence † Winedrunkenness.
a. 1000. Daniel, 753. Windruncen ʓewit.
c. 1205. Lay., 8126. Þa drihliche gumen weoren win drunken.
a. 1250. Prov. Alfred, 270, in O. E. Misc., 118. Ne wurþ þu neuer so wod ne so wyn-drunke Þat euere segge þine wife alle þine wille.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 357. [Polemius] was wyndronke. Ibid., VI. 39. He hated wyn dronkenes.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 19. That man mai wel noght longe stonde Which is wyndrunke of comun us.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 529/2. Wyyne drunkon.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Thess. v. 7. Those that are wynedrunken, are drunken in the night.
