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sed of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.

Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

, would give an eye to boot. Shak. A man's heaviness is refreshed long before he comes to drunkenness, for when he arrives thither he hath but changed his heaviness, and taken a crime to boot. Jer. Taylor.

Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery. The first physicians by debauch were made. Dryden.

A very wicked person; hence, any great evil. "That devil Glendower." "The devil drunkenness." Shak. Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil John vi. 70.

Drunkenness. [Obs.]

The state of being drunk; drunkenness. [Obs.] Gower.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.

. . . garish colors." Asham. "The garish day." J. H. Newman. Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.

Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.

Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.

The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness. [R.]

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

Lechery; lust. [Obs.] Shak. Luxury is in wine and drunkenness. Chaucer.

Drunk, or somewhat drunk; fuddled; given to drunkenness. Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt. Byron.

Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [R.] "Their temulency." Jer. Taylor.

Against the churches. Shak. All the evils of an untied tongue we put upon the accounts of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor.