Word Meanings - EBRIETY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.
Related words: (words related to EBRIETY)
- 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.