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noun

Intoxication n.

(Med.) A poisoning, as by a alcoholic or a narcotic substance.

The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk.

A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness. "That secret intoxication of pleasure."

Synonyms: Drunkenness; inebriation; inebriety; ebriety; infatuation; delirium. See Drunkenness.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intoxication" Quotes from Famous Books

... both forgot the danger behind them. The intoxication of an ideal and self-forgetting trust—a merger of all else in tenderness—flooded their souls and passed back and forth between them in ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... which set towards the opposite end of the town. There the same exploits were repeated, and the most ludicrous outrages perpetrated. I cannot remember that the enjoyment of alcoholic drinks contributed to the intoxication of myself and my immediate fellows. I only know that I finally got into the state that usually succeeds a debauch, and upon waking next morning, as if from a hideous nightmare, had to convince myself that I had really taken part in the events of the previous ...

— My Life, Volume I • Richard Wagner

... though the Yankee storekeeper was discomfited to find that Davidson of Daisy Burn had undertaken the guidance of the hive; he sulked somewhat in consequence, and also because the consumption of spirits was not, as he had contemplated, to intoxication. Robert was backed by his sturdy Scottish neighbour in that resolve; and the more sensible of the workers ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... essentials, you should be deprived of any rational amusement afterward; or, lastly, from dissipation in such company as you would most likely meet under such circumstances, who but too often mistake ribaldry for wit, and rioting, swearing, intoxication, and gambling, for manliness." ...

— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... to the advocacy of the eminent scientist, Metchnikoff, who asserts that researches in the Pasteur Institute have shown that certain diseases of advanced age are due to auto-intoxication from the larger intestine and that the consumption of fermented milk acts as an antiseptic, neutralizing this bacterial intoxication, the consumption of fermented milk, or buttermilk, or koumiss, has very largely increased. It is, in fact, rather remarkable to find that in large cities, ...

— Rural Hygiene • Henry N. Ogden

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