Meaning of crapula | Babel Free

Definitions

1. excessive drinking, drunkenness, inebriation, intoxication
   declension-1
2. a resin added to wine to make it more intoxicating
   declension-1, metonymically
3. surfeit of food, overeating
   Late-Latin, declension-1

Examples

“Quīn abeō hūc in Veneris fānum, ut ēdormīscam hanc crāpulam,”

Why not go in Venus's temple, that I might sleep this inebriation away, which I've drunk past what my soul's judgement desired?

“Veniendum erat ad eōs contrā Aprōnium qui nōndum Aprōniānī conviviī crāpulam exhālassent.”

One had to come to bring his case against Apronius in front of men who hadn't yet breathed out the drunkenness of Apronius's last banquet.

“At mīles ille, ut posteā didicī, tandem velut ēmersus gravī crāpulā nūtābundus tamen […]”

But, as I'd later learn, that soldier, tottering as if at last emerged from heavy inebriation […]

“Crāpulae ūtilitās discernitur hōc modō: pugnācibus mustīs crāpulae plūs inditur, lēnibus parcius.”

The use of the resin is classified thus: strong wines receive more of it, flat ones more sparingly.

“4th C. CE, Saint Jerome, Vulgate, Luke 21:34”

And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be weighed down with overeating, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that sudden day come upon you.

“Ēbrietās longē est ā mē: miserēberis, nē appropinquet mihi. Crāpula autem nōnnumquam subrepit servō tuō: miserēberis, ut longē fīat ā mē.”

Drunkenness is far away from me: thou shalt take pity on me not to let it near me. Overeating, however, creeps sometimes to thy servant: thou shalt take pity that it be taken far away from me.

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