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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Ebrieties

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[L.

ebrietas

, from.

ebrius

intoxicated: cf. F.

ébriéte

. Cf.

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.

“Ruinous ebriety.”

Cowper.

Noun.

[L. ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.]

Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.

ebriety ‎(plural ebrieties)

(uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351:
  God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth.
(obsolete) An instance of being drunk.