(n.) The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absinthe was distilled from an alcoholic steep of herbs.
(2) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
(3) Through an absinthe haze, he insists that he is not part of the massacre, not party to the hate.
(4) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
(5) James Joyce liked whiskey and Oscar Wilde quaffed absinthe, neither of which I would serve to myself in the bath unless I were reading Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (and we all know how that ends).
(6) But the artist admitted to episodes of heavy drinking that were amply confirmed by colleagues and there is good evidence to indicate that addiction to absinthe exacerbated his illness.
(7) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(8) (Midlake band members also own the Paschall speakeasy on the square and sometimes wield spoons and sugarcubes themselves for the absinthe preparation.)
(9) Just as the British Romantic artist and poet William Blake saw spirits and portrayed them, the late 19th-century symbolist Munch, abetted by loneliness, absinthe, magical experiments and by the spiritualist Christianity of his childhood, could slip into hallucinations.
(10) And all forms of alcohol, including absinthe, and vodka bongs.
(11) Camphor, alpha-pinene (the major component of turpentine), and thujone (a constituent in the liqueur called absinthe) produced an increase in porphyrin production in primary cultures of chick embryo liver cells.
(12) Yet upstairs at Andy’s is Paschall , a speakeasy whose absinthe glasses, antiques and bookcases are more Left Bank than Texas.
(13) His first painting submitted to the Paris Salon – and rejected – was of an absinthe drinker."
(14) If anything, Ronson's brand of creative collaboration recalls the absinthe-soaked salons of 1920s Paris – a cultural meeting point where artists can come and share ideas, "but," says Ronson in his dry mid-Atlantic drawl, "with less alcoholism".
(15) Modigliani's Reclining Nude fetches second-highest ever art auction price Read more Amedeo Modigliani was high on hashish, wrecked by absinthe, and desperately poor when he painted this hymn to lust in 1917-18.
(16) You expect, at a party hosted by the Erotic Review at which there is nothing to drink but absinthe, to end up redefining, with disturbing new nuances, the words 'guilt' and 'hangover'.
(17) Eight weeks later, on 23 December, the partnership came to a violent end when the pair quarrelled violently over, it is believed, Van Gogh spending the meagre household budget on prostitutes, and his refusal to stop drinking absinthe.
(18) The new streets came with trees and broad pavements along which café terraces sprang up, soon to be filled with artists and artisans enjoying “absinthe hour”.
(19) Bowl food is considered crass, though very much encouraged if you have an absinthe bar, or sooner or later all dignity will be gone.
(20) As well as 100 classic cocktails, listed alphabetically from an absinthe frappe to a zombie (all for under $14), it serves craft punches by the bowl for parties of four to six and small plates to soak up the alcohol.
Poison
Definition:
(n.) Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of pestilential diseases.
(n.) That which taints or destroys moral purity or health; as, the poison of evil example; the poison of sin.
(n.) To put poison upon or into; to infect with poison; as, to poison an arrow; to poison food or drink.
(n.) To injure or kill by poison; to administer poison to.
(n.) To taint; to corrupt; to vitiate; as, vice poisons happiness; slander poisoned his mind.
(v. i.) To act as, or convey, a poison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resistance to antibiotics have been detected in food poisoning bacteria, namely Salmonella typhimurium, Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium perfringens.
(2) It can induce acute cholinesterase poisoning, which is rapidly reversible on discontinuation of exposure.
(3) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
(4) A case is presented of deliberate chewing of the flowers of henbane (Hyoscyamus niger) in the hope of producing euphoria, and an account is given of the poisoning so produced.
(5) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
(6) Extrapyramidal syndromes after ischemic anoxia are rare, when compared to their relative frequency after carbon monoxide poisoning.
(7) Concern about the safety of the patient and dental personnel does exist, however, due to the possibilities of mercury poisoning.
(8) Excess levels of selenium (2.5 and 5 ppm) in the vitamin E-deficient diet had little or no effect on spleen size or hematocrit of rats not receiving lead, but partially prevented the splenomegaly and anemia of red cells from either non-poisoned or lead-oisoned vitamin E-deficient rats, but not as effectively as vitamin E. These results show that vitamin E status of rats is more important that selenium status in determining response to toxic levels of lead.
(9) Toxicity has been reported in the fetus of a woman ingesting a huge overdose of digitoxin; the same result would be anticipated with digoxin poisoning.
(10) Three esterase inhibitors, phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride, bis-(p-nitrophenyl)-phosphate, and diisopropylfluorophosphate, had no effect on the antidote effectiveness of N-acetylcysteine, although each provided partial protection against acetaminophen poisoning.
(11) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
(12) In vivo the administration of captopril prevented the toxic effects of mercury poisoning on membrane permeability, oxidative phosphorylation and Ca++ homeostasis.
(13) Large doses of dsFab are efficacious in the treatment of dysrhythmias in this canine model of N oleander cardiac glycoside poisoning.
(14) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
(15) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(16) Zelaya's food comes separately and is prepared by his daughter because he fears being poisoned.
(17) Characteristics of the poisoning include a delay between exposure and onset of symptoms; early systemic toxicity with congestive changes in the lungs and oliguric renal failure; prominent cerebellar and Parkinsonian neurologic symptoms as well as seizures and coma in severe cases; and psychiatric disturbances that can last from months to years.
(18) A method of poisoning cats with thallium is described.
(19) They were given individually to guinea pigs prior to poisoning with 2 x LD50 soman to test their efficacy against organophosphorus-induced convulsions, brain damage, and lethality.
(20) This incident prompted the poison center to evaluate our emergency response capabilities.