Lexic.us

Definition of Inebriation

1. Noun. Habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms.

2. Noun. A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.

Definition of Inebriation

1. n. The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

Definition of Inebriation

1. Noun. The state or characteristic of drunkenness. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inebriation

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Inebriation

1. Intoxication, especially by alcohol. Origin: see inebriety (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inebriation

indwellings indwells indwelt inearth inearthed inearthing inearths inebriacy inebriant inebriants

inebriate inebriated inebriates inebriateth inebriating inebriation (current term) inebriations inebrieties inebriety inebrious

inedia inedibility inedible inedibles inedibly inedita inedited ineditus ineducabilities ineducability

Literary usage of Inebriation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Stimulants and Narcotics, Their Mutual Relations: With Special Researches on by Francis Edmund Anstie (1865)
"Narcotic inebriation. This remarkable condition has been frequently very incorrectly described. Its first stages have been represented as the result of the ..."

2. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"... were three thousand years ago. broken by a long course of inebriation, that I would have the experiment cautiously made upon all occasions.' ART. VI. ..."

3. A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Charles James Blomfield (1851)
"Because 6 the inebriation of the Cup ... Blood of the Lord is not such as the inebriation of this world's wine, when the Holy Spirit said, in the Psalm, ..."

4. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"... and the western church was filled to inebriation with the nectar of his exalted character. The vast deposit of learning and theology at the abbey of Bee ..."

5. The Ohio Country Between the Years 1783 and 1815: Including Military by Charles Elihu Slocum (1910)
"... The Ohio Country CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The Settling of the British and French in America—Their inebriation ..."

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