quaff
verb (used without object)
to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
has quaffed
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present perfectof quaff (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Vile traitress, loved as good and true, As one who in his thirst has quaffed, Deceived by looks, a deadly draught.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Here is a city that has quaffed the magical elixir and secured the philosopher's stone, that is always young and always rich.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Small though the phial, it suffices for a life's fidelity: it is to be poured into any liquid; and Glaucus will only know what he has quaffed by the effect.'
From Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
In one sense he calls the world the city of God, for it has received the 'full cup' of the Divine draught, and has quaffed a perpetual, eternal joy.
From Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria by Norman Bentwich
Fortunate is the poet who has quaffed inspiration in the purest of all its sources, Nature; and fortunate is the land that claims him for her own.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
