propine
See also: propiné
English
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editpropine (plural propines)
- Alternative form of propyne
Etymology 2
editLatin propinō, Ancient Greek προπῑ́νω (propī́nō, “to drink to someone's health”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pɹəˈpaɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editpropine (third-person singular simple present propines, present participle propining, simple past and past participle propined)
- To pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
- 1752, Christopher Smart, “The Hop-Garden”, in Poems:
- The lovely sorceress mix'd, and to the prince
Health, peace and joy propin'd.
- 1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos, page 15:
- He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass,
Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.
- (by extension) To give in token of friendship.
- To give, or deliver; to subject.
- 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix:
- we would propine, both our selues, and our cause, vnto open and iust derision.
Noun
editpropine (plural propines)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “propine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Spanish
editVerb
editpropine
- inflection of propinar: