v. Obs. rare. [Contracted from BRENDICE; or directly f. It. brins, brinsi a health or drinking to one. Also I drinke to you (Florio, 1611).] trans. To drink to, pledge; also causal, to make, or give, to drink.
1556. Abp. Parker, Psalter lxxv. 211. The good at brynke the cleare doth drynke, God brinche them gently so.
a. 1572. Harding, in Jewels Wks. (1848), IV. 335. Luther first brinced to Germany the poisoned cup of his heresies.
1598. Lyly, Moth. Bomb., ii. 1 (N.). I carouse to Prisius, and brinch you mas Sperantus.