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Word Meanings - EBRIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

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  • SPIRITUOUS
    1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • DRUNKENNESS
    1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
  • SPIRITUOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being spirituous. Boyle.
  • INEBRIETY
    Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.
  • INTOXICATION
    A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
  • EBRIETY
    Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.
  • RUINOUS
    1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
  • PRUINOUS
    Frosty; pruinose.
  • AUTO-INTOXICATION
    Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

 

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