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/ɪnˈɛbriˌeɪt/ Listen

noun

Inebriate n. One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum for inebriates. "Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety."

verb

Inebriate v. t. (past & past part. inebriated; pres. part. inebriating)

To make drunk; to intoxicate. "The cups That cheer but not inebriate."

Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. "The inebriating effect of popular applause."

Inebriate v. i. To become drunk. (Obs.)

adjective

Inebriate adj. Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. "Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said."

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Etymology of 'Inebriate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inebriate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Its existence is emblazoned across the blue skies by an electric sign reading "Etablissement Parisien." It is in the Schellinggasse and justifies itself by the possession of a very fine orchestra whose militaer-kapellmeister knows naught but inebriate tanzmusik. ...

— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

... muscular force. All athletes recognize this fact, as while training for a contest, rigid abstinence is the rule, both from liquors and tobacco. This muscular weakness is shown also in the unsteady hand, the trembling limbs of the inebriate, his thick speech, wandering eye, ...

— A Practical Physiology • Albert F. Blaisdell

... inebriate with passion, as her pallid face turned to his, "is this your game? Take that, then!" and he plunged a glittering knife ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 • Various

... that I was afraid I would get too lazy. Being naturally indolent I wanted to get somewhere where I would be compelled to work. I have sometimes felt that I was naturally the laziest man ever born. I am afraid of indolence—as afraid of indolence as any reformed inebriate is afraid of the wine cup. He knows if he shall take one glass he will be flung back into inebriety. I am afraid, if I should take one long pull of nothing to do, I should ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... rest he will hunt from the mountains, and put an end to the joyous movements of this fair stranger with golden locks, who has come to guide their maidens to soft inebriate rites. Suddenly he sees his hero ancestor and the prophet in Bacchic attire. Bitter reproaches follow; the scene soon settling down into the forensic contest. Teiresias elaborately puts the case ...

— Story of Orestes - A Condensation of the Trilogy • Richard G. Moulton

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