Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to intoxicate, to make drunk.

1562		J. Heywood Proverbs and Epigrams (1867) 184: Three cuppes full at once shall oft dysgyse thee .
1712		trans. Pomet Compleat Hist. of Drugs I 138: If it kills not such Creatures as Wolves, Foxes, Tygers etc. yet possibly it may so stupifie and disguise them, that they may be the more easily master’d and killed by Mankind.
1806–7		J. Beresford Miseries of Human Life (1826) 250: Sure, fuddling a trade is Not lovely in Ladies, Since it thus can disguise a Soft sylph like Eliza.