Word Meanings - OUTDRINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To exceed in drinking.
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- EXCEEDING
More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney. - EXCEPT
1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak. - DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. - DRINK
p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching - EXCEPTIONER
One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton. - EXCEDENT
Excess. - DRINKER
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth . - EXCEPTIONAL
Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv. - EXCERNENT
Connected with, or pertaining to, excretion. - EXCENTRICITY
. Same as Eccentricity. - EXCEPTANT
Making exception. - EXCENTRIC; EXCENTRICAL
One-sided; having the normally central portion not in the true center. Gray. (more info) 1. Same as Eccentric, Eccentrical. - EXCECATE
To blind. Cockeram. - EXCEPTLESS
Not exceptional; usual. My general and exceptless rashness. Shak. - DRINKABLENESS
State of being drinkable. - EXCEEDABLE
Capable of exceeding or surpassing. Sherwood. - EXCERPT
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller. - EXCELLENT
1. Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, - EXCELSIOR
More lofty; still higher; ever upward. - EXCEPTIONABLE
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison. - OVERDRINK
To drink to excess.