Adam's ale to late 20th century, usage of the phrase has declined. The earliest known printed occurrence of "Adam's ale" is attributed to William Prynne's "The Soveraigne Power of Parliaments and Kingdomes", which was first printed in 1643.<ref name="Merriam-Webster/PoP"> Single occurrence dictionary definition sources for "Adam's ale": The term "Adam's Ale" gained popularity during the emergence of the temperance movement in the 1830s.<ref name="Epochs/JoATU1"> Single occurrence sources for "Adam's Ale" in relation to the temperance movement: [W]hat hurt will it do me to drink of this water?' Our father Adam had nothing better for his wedding-day, and before the earth was cursed,
Cock ale Francis Grose's "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue" (1785), which also calls it provocative. Writing in 1929, William Henry Nugent claimed that Cock ale was a concoction of bread and ale fed to fighting birds. Several authors have theorised that "Cock ale" may have mutated into "cocktail", an American word first used in 1806 whose origin is now lost. Cock ale Cock ale, popular in 17th and 18th-century England, was an ale whose recipe consisted of normal ale brewed inside a container, to which was later added a bag stuffed with a parboiled, skinned and gutted cock, and various fruits