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Intoxication   /ɪntˌɑksəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Intoxication

noun
1.
The physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance.  Synonyms: poisoning, toxic condition.
2.
A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol.  Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, tipsiness.
3.
Excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety.



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"Intoxication" Quotes from Famous Books



... take the risk. Make way, or I will put the ball through your own head," exclaimed Edward, fiercely: for the interval of rationality that circumstances had produced was again giving way to intoxication. ...
— Fanshawe • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... hand. But as an after-flavor there lingered for Imogen, like a faint, flat bitterness after the incense, a suspicion that Mary, in wafting her censer with such energy, had been seeking to fill her own nostrils, also, with the sacred old aroma, to find, as well as give, the intoxication of faith. ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... bummed around that banquet hall from 8 in the evening till 2 in the morning, talking with people and listening to speeches, and I never ate a single bite or took a sup of anything but ice water, so if I seem excited now, it is the intoxication of supreme enthusiasm. By George, it was a grand night, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the churchwardens of every parish were ordered to report to the Commander of the plantations, in which the Parish lay, all persons who had imbibed too freely. By 1632, a fine of five shillings was set to discourage intoxication, and by the middle of the century, heavier ...
— Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century - Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet Number 17 • Annie Lash Jester

... of conscience* by reference to a question now agitated in our community,—the question as to the moral fitness of the moderate use of fermented liquors. In civilized society, intoxication is universally known to be opposed to the fitnesses of body and mind, an abuse of alcoholic liquors, and an abuse of the drinker's own personality; and it is therefore condemned by all consciences, by none more heartily than by those of its ...
— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody


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