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Webster 1913 Edition
Drunkenness
Drunk′en-ness
,Noun.
1.
The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; – used of the casual state or the habit.
The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate
drunkenness
by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts.
2.
Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Webster 1828 Edition
Drunkenness
DRUNKENNESS
,Noun.
1.
Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. Drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness.
2.
Habitually ebriety or intoxication.3.
Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.