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Webster 1913 Edition


Ebriety

E-bri′e-ty

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Ebrieties
(#)
.
[L.
ebrietas
, from.
ebrius
intoxicated: cf. F.
ébriéte
. Cf.
So[GREEK]er
.]
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
“Ruinous ebriety.”
Cowper.

Webster 1828 Edition


Ebriety

EBRI'ETY

,
Noun.
[L. ebrietas, from ebrius, intoxicated.]
Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.

Definition 2024


ebriety

ebriety

English

Noun

ebriety (plural ebrieties)

  1. (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.
  2. (obsolete) An instance of being drunk.