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iˈnebriated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Intoxicated, drunken.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 29 Fish of sundry kinds..meeting with the fresh, as if inebriated, turne vp their bellies, and are taken. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vii. 196 As may be observed in the lifting or supporting of persons inebriated. 1839H. Rogers Ess. (1874) II. iii. 148 To be ‘drunk’ is vulgar; but if a man be simply ‘intoxicated’ or ‘inebriated’, it is comparatively venial.
2. transf. and fig.: see prec. 2.
1609Bible (Douay) 1 Macc. xvi. comm., To be inebriated signifieth no more but to be replenished with drinke competently, or abundantly, without excesse. a1647Crashaw Wks. (Grosart) 319 A sweet inebriated extasy. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. vii. 154 When that genius becomes inebriated by the flattery it receives. |