inˈtoxicated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
† 1. Imbued with poison; poisoned. Obs.
| 1558 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 20 a, If a man be..hurte with anie intoxicated weapon, ye must wryng wel the bloud out of the wounde. 1610 R. Abbot Old Way 9 To Suger the brims of their intoxicated Cups, that men the more greedily..may drinke those venimous potions. 1636 R. Brathwait Lives Rom. Emp. 291 By an intoxicated medicine..he suddenly dyed at Mantua. |
2. Stupefied or having the brain affected with a drug or alcoholic liquor; inebriated, drunk.
| 1576 Fleming Panopl. Epist. 290 Some so full of wine, and intoxicated with Bacchus berries. 1607 E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 311 Being at table in his lodging, and his head some-what intoxicated, he spake so rudely of the Pope..that he was arrested. 1802 T. S. Surr Splendid Misery III. 31 [Lying] in a state of intoxicated insensibility. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 31 A guide, who, though partly intoxicated, did his duty well. |
3. fig. Excited or roused in mind as if with alcoholic liquor; inebriated.
| 1692 Dryden St. Euremont's Ess. 296 When a Man intoxicated with reading, makes his first Step in the World, 'tis usually a false one. 1770 Junius Lett. xxxix. 202 Intoxicated with pleasure. 1798 Washington Lett. Writ. 1893 XIV. 22, I cannot believe..that the Directory of France, intoxicated and abandoned as it is, will have the folly to invade our territorial rights. a 1890 J. Brown Serm. (1892) 224 Men long held in spiritual slavery began to breathe and to be intoxicated with the air of freedom. |
Hence inˈtoxicatedly adv., in an intoxicated manner; like one who is intoxicated.
| 1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iii. viii. 46 He rows slowly on in a dream, his eyes intoxicatedly watching that pendent hand. |