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Inebriate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

2. 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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To become drunk. [Obs.] Bacon.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: adjective (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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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