inebriationn.
/ɪniːbrɪˈeɪʃən/ a. The action of inebriating, or condition of being inebriated; intoxication, drunkenness.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drunkenness
drunkennessc893
drunkenc950
drunknessc1160
drunkenheada1300
drunkhead1340
drunkelewnessa1387
winedrunkennessa1387
drunkship1393
drunkelewc1430
vinolence1430
yverescec1430
drunkenshipc1440
drunkelecc1450
barley-hooda1529
ebriety1582
alecy1594
distemper1600
insobriety1611
disguisea1616
perpotation1623
temulency1623
vinolency1623
intoxication1624
pot-shot1630
ebriosity1646
inebriation1646
Bacchation1656
fluster1710
temulentness1727
fuddle1764
inebriety1801
temulence1803
Lushington1823
fluffiness1860
booziness1863
jag1891
brannigan1892
befuddlement1905
mokus1924
muzzy-headedness1930
pixilation1936
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 270 Unexpected inebriation from the unknowne effects of wine. View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 25 Some generous strong and sweet Wine, wherein more especially lay the power of inebriation.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 171 He is computed to have drank, during the period of his inebriation, half a century, a quart of gin or whisky per day.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 489 Through inebriation the mind of those who drink is changed.
b. figurative. Intoxication of the mind or feelings; extravagant exhilaration, excitement, or emotion, such as to cause loss of mental or moral steadiness.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > extravagant or rapturous excitement > [noun]
woodnessc1000
excess1423
inebriation1526
madness1595
deliration1603
raptery1640
mania1689
intoxication1712
ebriety1751
delirium1757
nympholepsy1776
inebriety1786
orgiasm1840
raptus1845
ebriosity1854
slap-happiness1958
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. gvi This inebriacion or heuenly dronkennesse of the spyrite.
1639 F. B. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Coll. Mod. Epist. IV. 12 Such inebriations of the spirit..Philosophy hath observ'd in extraordinary successes.
1828 T. B. Macaulay Hallam's Constit. Hist. in Edinb. Rev. Sept. 144 They did not preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity.
1886 J. A. Symonds Catholic Reaction in Renaissance in Italy (1898) VII. ix. 76 The inebriation of the Renaissance..pulses through all his utterances.
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