ebriate

comparative more ebriate · superlative most ebriate

1. obsoleteDrunk; intoxicated.

   One moment the retailer of tea, sugar, rum, and tobacco; the next, the ebriate solace of her ebriate mate.

   1843, John Hood, Australia and the East, page 319

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   Acme then her head reflecting, Kiss'd her sweet youth's ebriate eyes, With her rosy lips connecting Looks that glistened with replies.

   1847 June, Aquilius, “Horæ Catullianæ”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 61, number 380, page 704

   Here before lords of the brain, why and till when, foolishly vain, Sett'st thou forth, crown of the feast, drunkard, thy soft ebriate strain?

   1876, P. Whalley, “Translations from the Díwán of ZíB-un-nisá Begam, poetically styed 'Makhfí, duahter of the Emperor Aurangzíb”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 45, number 3, page 310

plural ebriates

1. obsoleteA drunkard.

   The fact that it had been given for religious purposes would seem to point to its being spent on good and charitable works, such as hospitals, bridges, improvement of the dwellings of the poor, especially in large cities , foundation of asylums for ebriates, and the like.

   1877, The Twentieth Century - Volume 1, page 705

present singular third person ebriates · participle present ebriating · participle past ebriated · past ebriated

1. obsoleteTo intoxicate.

   Their seductive colouring ebriates, and libertinism reigns triumphant.

   1783 January, “The Congress of Cythera”, in The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 3, page 32

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   Make me with Thy stripes sore-stricken, With Thy cross my spirit quicken— Ebriate—but not with wine: Cheer me, and with mercy brighten, Shield me, and my darkness lighten, When the Day of Doom shall shine.

   1852, “Stabat Mater”, in William John Blew, Henry John Gauntlett, editors, The Church Hymn and Tune Book, page 19