American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1

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Author: Noah Webster

Inebriate

INE’BRIATE, v.t. [L. inebrio, inebriatus; in and ebrio, to intoxicate; ebrius, soaked, drenched, drunken. The Latin ebrius is contracted from ebrigus or ebregus, as appears from the Spanish embriagar, to intoxicate, embriago, inebriated; Gr. to water or irrigate. See Rain.]

1. To make drunk; to intoxicate.

2. To disorder the senses; to stupefy, or to make furious or frantic; to produce effects like those of liquor, which are various in different constitutions.

INE’BRIATE, v.i. To be or become intoxicated.

INE’BRIATE, n. A habitual drunkard.

Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety terminated by much pale urine, profuse sweats, c.

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Chicago: Noah Webster Jr., "Inebriate," American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1 (New York: S. Converse, 1828), Original Sources, accessed December 5, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TDERCFX4M8IXJZ.

MLA: Webster, Noah, Jr. "Inebriate." American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, in An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, New York, S. Converse, 1828, Original Sources. 5 Dec. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TDERCFX4M8IXJZ.

Harvard: Webster, N, 'Inebriate' in American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1. cited in 1828, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Vol. 1, S. Converse, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 5 December 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=3TDERCFX4M8IXJZ.