ppl. a. Obs. [OE. fordruncen, f. FOR- pref.1 + DRUNKEN; = MLG. vordrunken.] Drunk, overcome with drink.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past., xl. 295. Ab[i]gall hatte suiðe herigendlice forsuigode ðæt dysiȝ hiere fordruncnan hlafordes.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 143. Þe prude, þe fordrunkene, þe chidinde.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s Prol., 12. The Myller that for-drunken was al pale.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, III. ix. 81.
| Sowpit in sleip, his nek fourth of the cave | |
| He straucht, fordrunkin, ligging in his dreme. |
