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VINO-. 217 VINTAGE.
14. . l''runkenness.]
Vi'nolency. rare. [ad. L. vTfioientia, f. vitwlenttts
: see next and -Excv.] Drtuikenness.
i6a3CocKKRAM I. [Also Bailey (1721), etc.] 1804 Trotter
Drunkenness ii. 21 note^ No bad assemblage of thephaenomena
of Vinolency.
7111016X11: (vai'n^lent), a. Also 4-6 vyno-.
[ad. L. vinolent-us, f. vinum wine.] Addicted to
drinking wine ; tending to drunkenness. j
138s WvcLiF Titus I. 7 It bihoueth a bischop for to be
witnoute crime,.. not proud, not wrathful, not vynolent. |
cxi/iS Chaucer IVi/e's Frol. 467 In ubmmen vinolent is no ;
defence, This knowen lecchours by experience, c 1386 — :
So'upn, T. 223 They ben.. Al vinolent as hotel in thespence.
i4ia-ao LvDG. Chron. Troy 11. 5758 For m.in or woman ^at
is vinolent Is verreyly a beste vnresonable. c 1440 Capgrave [
Life St. Kath, iv. 1533 Venus was lecherous and also
vynolent, 15x5 Barclay Eghges (1570) C vj72 There is wq
secrete with people vinolent. By beastly surfeit, the life is
breviate. 1556 Laldkr Tractate 286 5e ^ulde nocht chuse
vntothatcureAne Vinolent nor wod Pasture. 1656 Blount
Glosso^r. 1837 Wheelwright tr. Aristoph. II. 80 note^
The vinolent propensity of the Athenian females.
Hence Vinolentness, drunkenness. rare~^,
1727 HaII.KY IV'^l. II).
rare—'^. [f. L. vTn-um wine +
Viuo'logist.
-CLOG 1ST.] A connoisseur in wines.
1845 Ford llandbk. .Spain i. 309 The true vinologist ,
should so down into one of the cuevas or cellars and have
a goblet of the ruby fluid drawn from the big-bellied
Tinaja,
Vinomadafied, a. rare-"^. [f. L. v/"«-7//« wine
\- made/ieri io be soaked.] Soaked with wine. '
165* Ureauty of this rarest of vinis [that, etc.].
Vint (vint), V. [Back-formation from Vintner
or Vintage.]
1 1. trans. To sell or vend (wine). Obs.-"^
ijtB North Mem. Music (1846) 112 The taverner finding
the sweets of vinting wine and taking money.
2. To make (wine, etc.); = Vintage v. i.
1857 Trollope Barckester T. xxi. II. 38, I wouldn't give
a straw for the bc^l wine that ever was vinted, after it had
I district
lain here a couple of years. 1908 Academy 11 April 666/1
M r. Pickwick . . drinks a brandy that was vinted and distilled
in Sirius.
Vintage (vi-ntedj), sb. Also 5-6 vyntage.
[a. AF. vintage (1353), altered f. oivindage, vendage
Vendage, OF. vendange, by association with
ViNTER or Vintner.]
1. The produce or yield of the vine, either as
grapes or wine ; the crop or yield of a vineyard or
in a single season. Now rare or Obs.
Quot. 1460 refers to the capture of large supplies of wine
from the French.
c 1450 Brut II. 372 pere l?ay restid ham n while, and sette
^e cuntre yn pees t'i rest tylle J>e vyntage were redy to sayle.
a 1460 Capgrave Chron. 239 Than the vyntage of Ynglond
took a othir felauchip, where thei had a thousand tunne wyn
and V. hundred. 15*3 Ld. Berners Froiss.xxW. (i^ii) II.
55 And there he taryed tyll they had inned all their corne
and vyntage. 1589 Fleming i''irg. Georg. 11. 21 Not one
and selfe same vintage hangs on our Italian trees. 1605
^hCLQii Adv. Leaiti. i. iv. § 11 By reason of their stirring and
digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had
.
a great vintage. 1657 Burton's Diary (18^8) I. 327 'J'he
commonwealth will be cheated ; for most of the wine of this
vintage is now in the vintners* cellars. 1697 Drvdkn Virg.
Past. V. 109 Two Goblets will I crown with sparkling Wine,
The gen'rous Vintage of the Chian Vine. 1713 Young Last
Day II. 348 Shi»e we in arms? or sing beneath our vine?
Thine is the vintage, and the conquest Thine. 1748 Grav
Alliance 57 With grim delight the brood of winter view A
brij;hter day.. ; Scent the new fragrance of the breathing
rose, And quaff the pendent vintage as it grows. 1818 AI ks.
Shelley /•rankenst. i. (1865) 62 Never did.. the vines yield
a more luxuriant vintage. 1818 Shelley Euganean Hills
221 Where.. the milk-white oxen slow With the purple
vintage strain, Heaped upon the creaking wain.
Jig. 1586 Warner .(4 /(&. Eng. iv. xxi. (1589) 8g The Vintage
of my thrifiles loue isblasteain the bloome. 1647 N. Bacon
Disc. Govt. Eng. 1. ii. (1739) 19 This was the vintage of
Kings and great men, but the gleanings of the People were
much more plentiful. 1820 Shelley Ode Liberty xii. 7
How like Bacchanals of blood Round France, the ghastly
vintage, stood Destruction's sceptred slaves, and Folly s
mitred brood !
b. poet. Wine, esp. of good or rare quality.
1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 51 We had excellent
cheere, rare vintage, and were drunke after supper.
1725 Poi'E Odyss. IV. 67 In solid gold the purple vintage
flows. i8ao Keats To a Nightingale ii, O f for a draught
of vintage, that hath been Cool'd a long age in the deepdelved
earth. 1859 Tennyson Elaine 266 The great
knight,.. Whom they with meats and vintage of their Lest
And talk and minstrel melody entertain 'd. 1887 Bowkn
Aineid i. 729 Soon for the goblet she asks,. .Then with the
vintage hllsit.
trans/. 1856 B. Taylor Summer s Bacclmnal 109 Where
the crystal vintage of the mountain Runs in foam from
dazzling fields of snow.
c. Used with reference to the age or year of a
particular wine, usually connoting one of good or
outstanding quality ; now spec, a wine made from
the grape-crop of a certain district in a good year
and kept separate on account of its quality.
1746 Francis tr. Horace, Epist. i. v. 6 Nor old, .. nor
excellent, my Wine, Of five Years Vintage, and a marshy
Vine. 1760 JoHN-soN idler No. 97 ^4 He may. .regale his
palate with a succession of vintages. 1817 Bvron Matt/red
11. i. 18 Taste my wine; *Tis of an ancient vintage. 1864
Tennyson Aylmer's F. 407 Honest Avtrill-.fetch'd His
richest beeswing from a binn reserved For banquets, praised
the waning red, and told The vintage. 1888 Encycl. Brit.
XXIV. 605 The principal claret vintages of the igih century
are considered to have been those of 1815, '25, '2S
(etc.]. Ibid. 608 The last year when the wine was shipped
as a vintage.
trans/. 1874 L. Stephen Hours in Libra7y {iByg) III.
231 There are vintages( Loth material and intellectual,
which are more frequently praised than heartily enjoyed.
d. A property yielding \vine. rare^^.
1840 Hood Up Rhine 231 Last summer we purchased a
small cask of wine from a woman whoowns,a little vintage.
2. The gathering of the ripe grapes in order to
make them into wine, including the preliminary
processes of wine-making, as pressing and placing
the juice in the fermenting vats, etc. ; the grapeharvest.
Also in the phrase -^to make vintage (sec b).
id) 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 14 §2 From Burdeux to
London for everie tonne Wyne at thefyrst vintage,, .xviij.s.
1550 NicoLLs Thuiydides iv. 114b, Sone after that, a Ijtle
bifore the viTitage, that selfe somer. 1560 Hicle (Gencv.)
Miaih vii. i, 1 am as the somer gatherings, & as the grapes
of the vintage. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 405 The grapegatherer
in lime of Vintage. 1656 Blount Glassogr., yin-
/rt^^,.. Vine-harvest, Grape-har\*est, Grape-gathering, Wine
making. 1710 J. Clarke tr. Rohauifs Nat. Philos. (1729)
I. 175 For if it rains a little before the Vintage, the Wine is
sharper. 1790 liuRKE Fr. Rev. 261 The produce of the vintage
in Guienne and Languedoc. 1833 Redding Mod.
Wines iii. (1851) 53 The time of the vintage being fixed, the
gathering is begun as early in the day as possible. 1863
T. G. Shaw IVine, line - Cellar xi. 285 Ihe vintage is
ofien delayed to such a late period of the season as to in( ur
1 five
I like
] b.
i when
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I whole
the danger of injury from frost. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV.
605/1 The vintage in Me'dcc usually commences between
the middle and end of September and lasts from t«o to
three weeks. 'Ihe process is a very simple one.
/g. f86o PusEY Minor Proph. 197 It was a vintage, not
of wine, but of woe.
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(b) 1600 Nashe .Summer's Last Hilt Fjb, My Lord askes
thee, what vintage thou hast made? 1609 Bible (Douay)
jer. xxxi. 5 Ihe planters .';hal plant, and til the time come
they shal not make vintage. 1731 Miller Card. Dtct. s.v.
Vttis, My Conjecture is founded upon more than twenty-
Vintages, which I have seen made.
Jig. 1609 Bible (Douay) La?n. i. 12 See if there be sorow
to my sorow ; because he hath made vintage of me, as
our Lord hath spoken. .
The season or time when this is done. Also
with a and pi.
1616 Bullokar Eng. Expos., Vintage, the time of yearc
wine is m.-tde. 1651 R. Child in Hartlib s Legacy
(1655) 148, I lived in Chamntoii two leagues from 1 aris, a
Vintaiae, purposely to see how wine was made in
France. 1764 Harmer Obs€rt>. i. § 18. 43 If -St. Jeromemay
believtd, the vintage of Tudaa is not till (he end ot Sep-
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I or
be
tember beginning of October. 1858 Simmonijs Utcl.