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ebriate

ebriate adjective: drunk; intoxicated.

Adjective

ebriate (comparative more ebriate, superlative most ebriate)

  1. (obsolete) Drunk; 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
    • 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

Verb

ebriate (third-person singular simple present ebriates, present participle ebriating, simple past and past participle ebriated)

  1. (obsolete) To 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
    • 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

Noun

ebriate (plural ebriates)

  1. (obsolete) A 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

Forms of ebriate

Adjective
comparativemore ebriate
superlativemost ebriate
Verb
third-person singular presentebriates
present participleebriating
past participleebriated
pastebriated
Noun
pluralebriates

Origin of ebriate

From Latin ebrius (“drunk”).

Questions about ebriate

What does ebriate mean?
Ebriate means drunk; intoxicated.
What part of speech is ebriate?
Ebriate can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.

Words near ebriate in the dictionary

  1. Ebrahims
  2. Ebrard
  3. ebraries
  4. ebrary
  5. EBRD
  6. ebriate
  7. ebriated
  8. ebriates
  9. ebriating
  10. ebrieties
  11. ebriety

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