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Is there a verb that means to give a drink to someone?
Feed:Food :: ____:Water
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There's water, but it's only used for animals and flowers.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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a tough one! I thought of imbue, but I haven't actually used it in that way.
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refreshment?
when i am asked 'can i offer you some refreshment?" i presume people are asking if i would like something to drink. (from maiden aunts, that means water or cup of tea, but at a party, it might mean a real drink (ie, liquor)
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Good grief, I thought everybody knew this: dronkelewe, of course.
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Good grief, I thought everybody knew this: dronkelewe, of course.
huh?
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He seith he kan no difference fynde
Bitwix a man that is out of his mynde
And a man which that is dronkelewe,
But that woodnessse, yfallen in a shrewe,
Persevereth lenger than doth dronkenesse.
~Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale 493-497, Canterbury Tales
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Doesn't "libate" mean to drink yourself, rather than to give someone a drink?
It's funny that there doesn't seem to be one word to describe this action and you have to specify the giving or offering of drink. It's the same in Spanish "dar de beber", and I think possibly in French too? "donner à quelqu'un quelque chose à boire"?.
Could it be that maybe anthropologically and socially the act of giving water, the primary life-sustaining substance, was valuable as a symbolic action of goodwill, and thus stressed the offering?
I am also thinking of the Bible where it says "feed the hungry", and another line about giving drink to the thirsty. What is that line in English? In Spanish both are "give" + "food"/"drink", but I guess that's just poetics, or rhythm, or something, as we do have a separate verb for "feed".
EDIT: I had a brainwave and touched up the French.
Last edited by Marianna; 10/25/05 02:24 PM.
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He seith he kan no difference fynde
Bitwix a man that is out of his mynde
And a man which that is dronkelewe,
But that woodnessse, yfallen in a shrewe,
Persevereth lenger than doth dronkenesse.
~Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale 493-497, Canterbury Tales
ah. thanks.
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