a. Also 4–6 vyno-. [ad. L. vīnolent-us, f. vīnum wine.] Addicted to drinking wine; tending to drunkenness.
1382. Wyclif, Titus i. 7. It bihoueth a bischop for to be withoute crime,… not proud, not wrathful, not vynolent.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s Prol., 467. In wommen vinolent is no defence, This knowen lecchours by experience. Ibid. (c. 1386), Sompn. T., 223. They ben … Al vinolent as botel in the spence.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, II. 5758. For man or woman þat is vinolent Is verreyly a beste vnresonable.
c. 1440. Capgrave, Life St. Kath., IV. 1533. Venus was lecherous and also vynolent.
1515. Barclay, Egloges (1570), C vj/2. There is no secrete with people vinolent, By beastly surfeit, the life is breviate.
1556. Lauder, Tractate, 286. Ȝe sulde nocht chuse vnto that cure Ane Vinolent nor wod Pasture.
1656. Blount, Glossogr.
1837. Wheelwright, trans. Aristoph., II. 80, note. The vinolent propensity of the Athenian females.
Hence Vinolentness, drunkenness, rare–0.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
