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Definition of Intoxicating
1. Adjective. Causing.
2. Adjective. Extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic.
Definition of Intoxicating
1. a. Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.
Definition of Intoxicating
1. Adjective. (context: of a substance) Able to intoxicate; an intoxicant. ¹
2. Adjective. Very exciting and stimulating, especially as if by alcohol or some stimulant. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of intoxicate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intoxicating
1. intoxicate [v] - See also: intoxicate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intoxicating
Literary usage of Intoxicating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"Willie Tomlin was indicted for owning, operating, and possessing an apparatus
for the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. Demurrer to indictment and bill ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1922)
"Intoxicating liquors <S= 139—Prohibition ot possession for unlawful use does ...
II, § 21, declaring any place where intoxicating liquor is manufactured or ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Common experience has shown that (he general and unrestricted use of intoxicating
liquors tends to produce idleness, disorder, disease, pauperism and crime. ..."
4. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1908)
"Rept. re. return to system of granting licenses for sale of intoxicating liquors
as means to promote cause of temperance. 4 pp. (Same 212, 1864.) . ..."
5. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"THE statutes of the several states regulating or prohibiting the sale of intoxicating
liquors are so numerous, so various, and so constantly the subject of ..."
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