Definition of "carouse"

carouse

/kəˈɹaʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present carouses, present participle carousing, simple past and past participle caroused
1. (intransitive) To engage in a noisy or drunken social gathering.
2. (intransitive) To drink to excess.
noun
plural carouses
1. A large draught of liquor.
  Quotations
  […] therefore forward I went with my hey-de-gaies to Ilford, where I againe reſted, and was by the people of the towne and countrey there-about very very wel welcomed, being offred carowſes in the great ſpoon, one whole draught being able at that time to haue drawne my little wit drye; […]
  1600, William Kempe, Kemps nine daies vvonder, pages 4–5
  Had our great Pallace the capacityTo Campe this hoaſt, we all would ſup together,And drinke Carowſes to the next dayes Fate […]
  c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene viii]
  […] he hadde ſo many eyes watching ouer him, as he coulde not drinke a full Carouſe of Sacke, but the State was aduertised thereof, within few houres after.
  1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
2. A drinking bout; a carousal.
  Quotations
  The early feast and late carouse.
  1725, Homer, “Book II”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot
  PORSON […] would not only frequently “steal a few hours from the night,” but see out both lights and liquids, and seem none the worse for the carouse.
  1835, Richard Gooch, Oxford and Cambridge Nuts to Crack, page 25

Definition of "carouse"

carouse

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