INEBRIATE

v. a. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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. Macaulay.

3.
v.

To become drunk. [Obs.] Bacon.

4.
a.

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. Udall.

5.
n.

One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum fro inebriates. Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety. E. Darwin.


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