alecy

alternative alecie

1. obsoleteuncountableThe state of being inebriated from drinking ale or beer; (generally) drunkenness.

   The more Aſſe he, if he had areſted a mare in ſtead of an horſe, it had bin but a ſlight ouerſight, but to areſt a man that hath no lykeneſſe of a horſe, is flatte lunaſie or alecie.

   c. 1590 (date written), [John Lyly], Mother Bombie. […], London: […] Thomas Scarlet for Cuthbert Burby, published 1594, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, signature [G2], verso

   Synonyms: brick in one's hat, drunkenness, fuddling, pissedness, temulence, temulency, staggers and jags