Word Meanings - TEMULENTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. R. Junius.

Related words: (words related to TEMULENTIVE)

• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• TEMULENTIVE
  Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. R. Junius.
• ADDICT
  Addicted; devoted.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• ADDICTEDNESS
  The quality or state of being addicted; attachment.
• DRINKING
  1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing. 2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors. 3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal. Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking
• ADDICTION
  The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. "His addiction was to courses vain." Shak.
• DRINKLESS
  Destitute of drink. Chaucer.
• TEMULENT
  Intoxicated; drunken.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• OUTDRINK
  To exceed in drinking.
• BY-DRINKING
  A drinking between meals.