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Definition of Alcoholic

1. Noun. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.

2. Adjective. Characteristic of or containing alcohol. "Alcoholic drinks"

3. Adjective. Addicted to alcohol. "Alcoholic expatriates in Paris"

Definition of Alcoholic

1. a. Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.

2. n. A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.

Definition of Alcoholic

1. Noun. A person addicted to alcohol. ¹

2. Noun. One who abuses alcohol. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to alcohol. ¹

4. Adjective. Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents. ¹

5. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Alcoholic

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Medical Definition of Alcoholic

1. 1. Relating to, containing, or produced by alcohol. 2. One who suffers from alcoholism. 3. One who abuses or is dependent upon alcohol. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Alcoholic

alcohol drinking alcohol group alcohol oxidoreductases alcohol radical alcohol sulfotransferase alcohol thermometer alcohol withdrawal alcohol withdrawal delirium alcoholaemia alcoholaemias

alcoholate alcoholates alcoholature alcoholatures alcoholemia alcoholic (current term) alcoholic abuse alcoholic beverage alcoholic beverages alcoholic cardiomyopathy

alcoholic cirrhosis alcoholic dementia alcoholic deterioration alcoholic encephalopathy alcoholic extract alcoholic fermentation alcoholic hyalin alcoholic hyaline bodies alcoholic intoxication alcoholic ketoacidosis

Literary usage of Alcoholic

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

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1900)
"For example, alcoholic insanity is separable first into alcoholic delirium, so-called delirium tremens; second, alcoholic confusion, so-called alcoholic ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"Norbury gives the history of two cases of alcoholic mental derangement: one of typical alcoholic delusions of infidelity following the stoppage of alcohol ..."

3. The American Journal of Insanity by New York (State). State Lunatic Asylum (1906)
"In descriptions of the mental states that underlie or accompany alcoholic neuritis, with the exception of the symptom-complex, ..."

4. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"As a rule with alcoholic pneumonia there is extensive infiltration; ... alcoholic Poisoning.—There are but few deaths following acute alcoholic intoxication ..."

5. Household Bacteriology for Students in Domestic Sciences by Estelle Denis Buchanan, Robert Earle Buchanan (1913)
"It is not certain even at the present time that a wholly satisfactory explanation of all the changes which occur during the process of alcoholic ..."

6. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"Sperm oils, however, require boiling with the undiluted alcoholic potash, ... The alcoholic potash solution is very much more viscous than the sulphuric ..."

7. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler, Thomas McCrae (1912)
"alcoholic Cirrhosis.—As a result of the toxic action of the alcohol, ... Of these types the toxic and one form of the alcoholic are associated with ..."

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