intoxicated

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I said I was ashamed to confess we were both disgracefully intoxicated, and that I would take great care nothing of the same humiliating nature should occur again; whereupon we were fined twelve pots each, and I tossed sudden death with Simpson which should pay both.

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  1. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
  2. as if under the influence of alcohol

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  • This infamous libel represents me as intoxicated, and overcome to such a degree by the magnetic fluid, that I lost all control over myself, and all womanly reserve. —  The Queen's Necklace
  • But you are obsessed, intoxicated--I can't put it any better--and nothing but a shock will sober you. —  North of Fifty-Three
  • The brain waltzing intoxicated, the heart panting as in youth's earliest affection, the mind broad, and deep, and calm, a Pacific in the sunshine, the body lapped in downy rest, with every nerve ministering to its comfort; what more can one, merely and professedly of this world of sensualism--an opium-eater for instance--conceive of bliss? —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • In other respects they treated them with great inhumanity: sometimes they made them drink till they were intoxicated, and in that condition led them into the public halls, to show the young men what drunkenness was. —  Ideal Commonwealths
  • The man was more than half intoxicated, and lurched from side to side as he walked along the platform That fellow had better look out for himself," thought our hero. —  From Farm to Fortune or Nat Nason's Strange Experience
 

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