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Drunkenness See also Alcoholism. Acrasia self-indulgent in the pleasures of the senses. [Br. Lit.: Faerie Queene] a wine-bibber. [Br. Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 11] a toper, perhaps originally because of ceremonial duties. [Western Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 65] humorous personification of intoxicating liquor. [Am. and Br. Folklore: Misc.] sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153]
archetypal British working-class toper. [Comics: Horn, 82–83] mythical Flemish king; reputed inventor of beer. [Flem. Myth.: NCE, 1041] appointed Prince’s butler, oversamples his wines. [Ital. Opera: Rossini, Cinderella, Westerman, 120–121] inebriated from wine, sprawls naked in tent. [O.T.: Genesis 9:20–23] one of Bacchus’s retinue; fat, always inebriated. [Gk. Myth.: Hall, 283] identity changes during drunken stupor. [Br. Lit.: Taming of the Shrew] stumbling home from the tavern sees witches dancing around open coffins in the graveyard. [Br. Lit.: Burns Tam O’Shanter in Benét, 985] patron saint of drunks. [Christian Hagiog.: Brewer Dictionary, 1129] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Pittacus was the author of some laws, but never drew up any form of government; one of which was this, that if a drunken man beat any person he should be punished more than if he did it when sober; for as people are more apt to be abusive when drunk than sober, he paid no consideration to the excuse which drunkenness might claim, but regarded only the common benefit. Now he thought of Martha's arrival, of the drunkenness among the workers and his own renunciation of drink, then of their present journey and of Taras's house and the talk about the breaking-up of the family, then of his own lad, and of Mukhorty now sheltered under the drugget, and then of his master who made the sledge creak as he tossed about in it. My draught of passion hath been deep-- I revell'd, and I now would sleep And after drunkenness of soul Succeeds the glories of the bowl An idle longing night and day To dream my very life away. |
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