vinous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Pertaining to or having the characteristics of wine.

   The man who firſt tranſplanted the grape of Burgundy to the Cape of Good Hope (obſerve he was a Dutchman) never dreamt of drinking the ſame wine at the Cape, that the ſame grape produced upon the French mountains—he was too phlegmatic for that—but undoubtedly he expected to drink ſome ſort of vinous liquor; […]

2. 2
   adj

   Tending to drink wine excessively.

   Yet fat and vinous old Jack Falstaff, whose portraiture is the happiest hit in all the varied range of English comedy, must be sought for in other scenes.

3. 3
   adj

   Affected by the drinking of wine.

   The vinous Greek to whom he had address'd / His question, much too merry to divine / The questioner, fill'd up a glass of wine, […]

From Late Middle English vinous, vinose (“consisting of, containing, or made of wine”), from Latin vīnōsus (“fond of wine; wine-flavoured”), from vīnum (“wine”) + -ōsus (adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of, prone to’).

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