drunkenness

Definitions

1. A state of being drunk.
   uncountable, usually
2. cure (something that restores good health)
3. priest; curate
4. avocado
5. female equivalent of curo (“someone from Courland”)

Equivalents

Examples

“But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw⟳ that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put⟳ my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]”

“The Englishman had a reputation throughout Europe for gluttony; it was said that overeating was the English vice, just as lust was the French vice and drunkenness the German vice. Some Englishmen became very fat, and were famous for being so. Henry VIII ate enormous meals, but as a young man he was slim, perhaps because he always took a great deal⟳ of physical exercise. By the time that he was forty-five he was suffering from painful ulcers in his leg which prevented him from riding or walking without the greatest difficulty; but though he ceased to take⟳ exercise, he ate as much as ever. He then became very fat.”

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