(n.) The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.
(n.) Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Men in a halfway-house sample had more detoxication readmissions but fewer drunkenness arrests in a 3-month follow-up period than did their matched controls; the total number of documented drunkenness episodes did not differ in the two groups.
(2) In terms of attitudes towards drunkenness, however, differences between the two groups are slight.
(3) It is London not the provinces that is drunkenly dependent on public money.
(4) Twenty-nine subjects were interviewed and asked to think aloud their responses to four alcohol items: frequency of drinking, average quantity, frequency of drinking over 5 drinks, and frequency of drunkenness.
(5) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
(6) Offenders admitted to the 14-day program were significantly less likely to be rearrested for drunken driving (10 vs 20%).
(7) Page, an army veteran whose record was marred by drunkenness and a failure to report for duty, walked into the temple just before 10.30am and opened fire with a 9mm pistol.
(8) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
(9) According to a footnote of the directions for driver selection tests ("Eignungsrichtlinien") of December 1, 1982, a medical and psychological examination can be disposed also with first drunkenness offenders.
(10) ( Glenn Willis ) ‘Often the people who have the least are the most generous’ I’ve slept rough in London twice having drunkenly missed my last train home.
(11) Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013.
(12) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
(13) Maybe the movie ends with the rainbow promise and a drunken I Will Survive party.
(14) Employees accessed Chaffetz’s 2003 application for a secret service job starting 18 minutes after the start of a congressional hearing in March about the latest scandal involving drunken behavior by senior agents.
(15) In comparison only 34.5% were judged highly drunken on medical examination.
(16) Recorded criminal offence, receipt of public assistance, and conviction for drunkenness usually appeared later.
(17) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
(18) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
(19) Worst of times Losing the Olympic 800m to great rival Steve Ovett in 1980; being falsely accused in the tabloid press of drunken behaviour in 1984 (he went on to win an out-of-court settlement).
(20) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.
Inebriety
Definition:
(n.) Drunkenness; inebriation.
Example Sentences:
(1) From the beginning of the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety (November 1870) and throughout its history, the leadership perceived that it was at the forefront of a therapeutic social movement--the pioneer of a new medical viewpoint as well as a new medical specialty.
(2) The well-known acute inebriety beside, there is the pathologic hallucinatory and delusive inebrieties.
(3) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(4) Restrictions on sale were one corollary, and the extension of medical control helped delineate a hypodermic morphine problem and disease theories of 'inebriety'.
(5) The practitioner must affirm the correlation between the observed perturbations and the absorption of alcohol, eliminate some disease simulating an acute inebriety and take the therapeutic decisions which assert themselves in a dramatic atmosphere.
(6) Excessive drinking, particularly inebriety, is considered to be the core of the alcohol problem.
(7) During the late nineteenth century a number of physicians, sometimes called inebriety specialists, combined a narrowly physicalistic disease concept of alcoholism with a high regard for the curative power of asylum treatment to advocate the development of specialized asylums for the treatment of alcoholism.
(8) There was no statistically significant correlation between the degree of inebriety and image quality or diagnostic performance with the radiographic technique used, with the patient supine.
(9) This article considers why inebriety specialists held this belief as well as why others opposed it.