Meanings
- archaicrareuncountableThe state of being drunk; drunkenness.
The Quakers as early as 1705, cautioned against "Sippling and Tippling;" drunkedness was always considered by the Quakers as a sin, but they made a wide distinction between drinking and drunkedness ...
1965, Helen White Charles, editor, Quaker Chuckles, and Other True Stories about Friends, H.W. Charles, page 282 more examples
Therefore Christ commands: Look well to yourselves, least perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkedness. And Saint Paul dehorting us from drunkedness says: Be not drunk with wine wherein is riotousness. Drunkards shall not possess the Kingdom of God.
2015 [1554], St Peter Canisius, Catechism of St. Peter Canisius, Lulu.com, page 153In the most familiar types of drunkedness, the manifestations unmistakably belong to the cyclothymic complexes. Less commonly are seen types of so-called pathological drunkedness; delusional type, convulsive type, etc.
1931 [1922], United States. Army Medical Service, Army Medical Bulletin, page 42
Origin
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