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Intoxicated.

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

devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.

A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy. [Colloq.] C. Kingsley.

to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink. [R.] Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, and coagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.

To render intoxicated; as, ale strong enough to corn one. [Colloq.] Corning house, a house or place where powder is corned or granulated.

To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate. I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the ship. Spectator.

To intoxicate. [R.] The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man). Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon.

Inclined to drink to excess; intoxicated; tipsy. [R.] M. Collins.

To intoxicate in a slight degree; to render tipsy. [Colloq. & Sportive] "The elevated cavaliers sent for two tubs of merry stingo." Sir W. Scott.

To intoxicate; to stupefy with drink. I drank . . . so much wine that I was almost foxed. Pepys.

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.] I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

To make drunk; to intoxicate; to fuddle. [Obs.] Burton.

Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart.

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

Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating. [R.] T. Brown.

That which intoxicates; an intoxicating agent; as, alcohol, opium, and laughing gas are intoxicants.

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