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Intoxicant

noun
1.
A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent.  Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, inebriant.
2.
A drug that can produce a state of intoxication.
adjective
1.
Causing.  Synonym: intoxicating.





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"Intoxicant" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of decent shops, under carefully devised limitations. First, the liquors must be fully tested for purity; secondly, none could be sold to persons already under the influence of drink; thirdly, no intoxicant could be sold without something to eat with it, the effects of alcohol upon the system being thus mitigated. These and other restrictions had reduced the drink evil, as I was assured, to a minimum. But the most far-reaching provision ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White
... complete subjection by law to the will of his master, even in the smallest things and affairs of personal life, and disposal of belongings. Great care was taken to state specifically in these early laws that there should be no sale of liquor or any intoxicant ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various
... the use of improved facilities, claiming that it can be produced by the use of this machinery at one half the present cost, the plants being also made to yield more copiously. Of course it will be adulterated, every intoxicant is, except pulque as at present made from the maguey by ...
— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou
... lingered in her nostrils. She did not perceive that she was talking like her father as the sleek geldings ambled in review before them. She played for very high stakes, and fortune favored her. The fever of the game flamed in her cheeks and eyes, and it got into her blood and into her brain like an intoxicant. People turned their heads to look at her, and more than one lent an attentive car to her utterances, hoping thereby to secure the elusive but ever-desired "tip." Arobin caught the contagion of excitement which drew him to Edna like a magnet. Mrs. Highcamp remained, ...
— The Awakening and Selected Short Stories • Kate Chopin
... amazed, so relieved, so sure of him and of his fineness and of the future, that she could scarcely bear her felicity. It was too intense.... At last her life was settled and mapped out. Destiny had been kind, and she meant to be worthy of her fate. She could have swooned, so intoxicant was her wonder and her solemn joy and her yearning after ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett


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