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noun

Inebriate n. One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum for inebriates. "Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety."

verb

Inebriate v. t. (past & past part. inebriated; pres. part. inebriating)

To make drunk; to intoxicate. "The cups That cheer but not inebriate."

Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. "The inebriating effect of popular applause."

Inebriate v. i. To become drunk. (Obs.)

adjective

Inebriate adj. Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. "Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said."

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"Inebriate" Quotes from Famous Books

... say much that was definite, however they might have apprehended mischief from this quarter. It was known at home, that but little confidence could be placed in the efficiency and honesty of a Cabinet that tolerated a shuffling inebriate at its head; so that from the contradictory official documents reaching the Castle from Canada, through the Imperial authorities, it was, I suppose, deemed advisable to send me out to learn something of the true state of the case. Influenced thus, I set about my ...

— Ridgeway - An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada • Scian Dubh

... honored Sir, I fain would ask what bar It wast before which thou didst earnest plead? Gentlemen: Ha! Ha! Methinks a subtle humor finds Its home within the mind of him who rules. But in all truth the point were taken well, For Caesar, rumor saith, disdains the cup Which doth inebriate and thus befool The mind of him who at it tarries long. But Sire, the business which doth urge us here Is of great import to our party's needs. Francos: I pray thee, hasten to the point, for time Hath ...

— 'A Comedy of Errors' in Seven Acts • Spokeshave (AKA Old Fogy)

... drawer of Falernian old Crown me the goblets with a bitterer wine As was Postumia's law that rules the feast Than ebriate grape-stone more inebriate. But ye fare whither please ye (water-nymphs!) 5 To wine pernicious, and to sober folk Migrate ye: mere ...

— The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus • Caius Valerius Catullus

... five weeks later he was discharged from the Princess Alice Hospital at Eastbourne, perfectly recovered. There is a record of a man by the name of Bulkley who was found, by a police officer in Philadelphia, staggering along the streets, and was taken to the inebriate ward of the Blockley Hospital, where he subsequently sank and died, after having been transferred from ward to ward, his symptoms appearing inexplicable. A postmortem examination revealed the fact that an ordinary knife-blade had been driven into ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... all for five cents. I felt a good deal like the man who was full and who stepped on a man who was not full. The sober man was mad, and yelled out: "See here; condemn it, can't you look where you're walking?" "Betcher life," says the inebriate, "but trouble is to ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

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