Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inebriate"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inebriate \In*e"bri*ate\, v. i.
To become drunk. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inebriate \In*e"bri*ate\, a. [L. inebriatus, p. p.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inebriate \In*e"bri*ate\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inebriate \In*e"bri*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inebriated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Inebriating}.] [L. inebriatus, p. p. of
inebriare; pref. in- in + ebriare to make drunk, fr. ebrius
drunk. See {Ebriety}.]
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inebriate
n : a chronic drinker [syn: {drunkard}, {drunk}, {rummy}, {sot}]
v 1: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: {intoxicate}, {soak}]
2: become drunk; drink excessively [syn: {souse}, {soak}, {hit
it up}]
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