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  • noun Plural form of inebriant.

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Examples

  • I did not approve of the way he treated you, and his use of inebriants opened him to the portals of darkness.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • I did not approve of the way he treated you, and his use of inebriants opened him to the portals of darkness.

    Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011

  • Of course, we already started the rudimentary discussion about inebriants when he was four.

    Gender Part 1: Boys Don't Cry JLK 2009

  • Sure, that led me into many settings where inebriants flowed, but my reasoning was strictly practical.

    Barbara Ehrenreich: Boys Just Want to Have Fun 2008

  • The use of Bhang doubtless dates from the dawn of civilisation, whose earliest social pleasures would be inebriants.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • They were not on the list of recommended inebriants.

    Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995

  • The use of Bhang doubtless dates from the dawn of civilisation, whose earliest social pleasures would be inebriants.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • [FN#22] As has been seen, acids have ever been and are still administered as counter-inebriants, while hot spices and sweets greatly increase the effect of Bhang, opium, henbane, datura &c.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Epiphany movement, with Toscanini's pulling out anything like restraints, so that trumpets, strings, battery, and tympani can revel in drunken splendor, a tenor trombone enacting the reeling stupors of the inebriants.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • The history of marijuana is ancient, with deep roots in early human cultures that used inebriants to propel their searching minds beyond the ken of utilitarian living and launch their awe-awakening consciousness into the troposphere of imaginative musings.

    Aspen Times - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010

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