DRENCH Copy link • DRENCH 1. irrigare (to irrigate; poetical rigare): humidum, madidum facere or reddere: madefacere (to make wet): satiare: saturare (to satiate, to saturate, to let anything soak in water): to be drenched, humidum, etc.: fieri, madefieri, madescere: to drench with anything, madefacere aliqua re (e.g., the ground with blood, terrain sanguine) perfundere aliqua re (to wet anything by sprinkling or pouring something over it; e.g., aliquid lacrimis): incessant showers of rain, which drenched the fields or plains, imbres ccntinui campis omnibus inundantes (Liv. 8, 24). To saturate with drink; e.g., to be drenched with wine, potione completum esse: one that drenches himself with wine, potor, potator: to drench one’s self with wine, potare: se obruere vino. Drenched, uvidus (e.g., of fields, rura continuis imbribus; vestimenta, Hor.; also “drenched with wine;” Hor.). To physic by violence, medicamentum or potionem vi inserere in os (equi, etc., after Cic., De Or., 2, 39, 162); potionare (e.g., jumentum, Veg.; a low word, but probably technical term). 2. s. *largus haustus (a swill; e.g., uno haustu; uno impetu epotare; uno potu haurire) : Physic for a brute. [Vid: MEDICINE.] Physic that must be given by violence; e.g., to give a drench. Vid: To DRENCH.