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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.
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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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Doesn't "libate" mean to drink yourself, rather than to give someone a drink?
Hm, it doesn't even show in dic.com. Am I spelling it wrong. I know it from yeshiva (seminary) where it translated a word I don't remember for offering wine to idols (which wine then became damaged ("yahyin nezek"), and was fit only to be destroyed).
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> libate
done hasn't been verbed yet, eh?
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> libate
done hasn't been verbed yet, eh?
Well, but you'd think it was a verb, since the noun form is 'libation,' as far as I know.
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Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -ed/-ing/-s
Etymology: Latin libatus, past participle of libare to pour as an offering
transitive verb : to pour out a libation or make libation to
intransitive verb
1 : to make libation
2 : to drink alcoholic drink <sat up with three libating guests who would not leave>
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huh. doesn't show up at OneLook neither. but I did find this: yeshiva
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>huh. doesn't show up at OneLook neither.
unabridged dictionaries need to have some raisin for being.
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> raisin
and now I'm in your d'etre...
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Ok, so both transitive and intransitive. Ta!
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Irrigate: To refresh as if by watering--Webster
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When the dentist "irrigates" your mouth, you are not supposed to swallow. You are supposed to spit out the water into the little whirlpool sink device or allow the assistant to suck it back out of your mouth with the little sucky vacuum device. I don't think that one irrigates another by giving that person something to drink.
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Too bad liquidate is already taken 
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I use hydrate often, (you know us singers...) but it's a personal thing, not something you'd do to someone else.
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"The first thing we have to do," said the doctor in the desert hospital, "is to rehydrate the patient."
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Don't they normally do that with a drip rather than just giving the patient a drink?
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Don't they normally do that with a drip rather than just giving the patient a drink?
I think that's the padre's point.
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After all, I think there is reason for the absence of the desired word: You can always lead the oxen to the fountain, but you can't force him to drink  (probably the correct quote in English is different)
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I always thought that to "libate" was to offer part of the drink to the gods or spirits, often by tipping it onto the earth.
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In Philippians 2:17 (NAB), Saint Paul says "But, even if I am poured out as a libation upon the sacrificial service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with all of you." The commentary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops upon this verse says "Libation: in ancient religious ritual, the pouring out on the ground of a liquid offering as a sacrifice. Paul means that he may be facing death."
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I always thought that to "libate" was to offer part of the drink to the gods or spirits, often by tipping it onto the earth.
Yes, but don't we also say "libations" for good (or bad) drink? Ergo, libate -- though I've never heard it used that way.
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