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.

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1556.  Abp. Parker, Psalter lxxv. 211. The good at brynke the cleare doth drynke, God brinche them gently so.

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a. 1572.  Harding, in Jewel’s Wks. (1848), IV. 335. Luther first brinced to Germany the poisoned cup of his heresies.

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1598.  Lyly, Moth. Bomb., ii. 1 (N.). I carouse to Prisius, and brinch you mas Sperantus.

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