unliquored

English

Etymology

un- +‎ liquored

Adjective

unliquored (comparative more unliquored, superlative most unliquored)

1. Not intoxicated; sober.
   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

     I doubt me whether the very soberness of such a one , like an unliquored Silenus , were not stark drunk

2. (obsolete) Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry.
   • 1641, Joseph Hall, The Mischief of Faction, and the Remedy of it (sermon)

     How have we seen Churches and States, like a dry unliquored coach, set themselves on fire with their own motion!

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unliquored”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)