a. Obs. = prec., being the earlier form.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 7560. Als þey were … wel cuppe-schoten, knyght & kyng.
1529. More, Dyaloge, I. xxiii. Wks. 153. If a maide be suffred to ronne on the brydle, or be cup shotten, or wax to prowde.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xiii. (1632), 624. Store of wine had made his companions cuppe-shotten.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxxviii. 318. Cupshotten and swilling fool.
