ebriating
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
ebriating
- present participle and gerund of ebriate
Adjective[edit]
ebriating (comparative more ebriating, superlative most ebriating)
- Intoxicating.
- 1698, John Fryer, “The Present State of Persia. Chap. XIII. Of Their Bookmen and Books; of Their Religion and Religious Worship; of Their Notions in Philosophy; of Heaven and Hell: Their Astronomers, Physicians, and Lawyers.”, in A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. […], London: […] R[obert] R[oberts] for Ri[chard] Chiswell, letter V (Travels into Persia), page 385:
- […]; their Liquors diſtilling from Vines that are not ebriating, which ſhall never offend the Brain;
- 1830, William Hone, The Every-day Book and Table Book:
- They love gross riot, turbulence, and noise, The Bacchanalian's ebriating mirth, And when the autumn of their lives creeps on, Their wit has vansh'd, and their strength is gone!