Citations:debacchate

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English citations of debacchate

rant drunkenly

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  • 1663, Sir John Fortscue Knight, "Fortescutus illustratus; or, A commentary on that nervous treatise De laudibus legum Angliae",page 86:
And Philo long ago, though he debacchates not againſt him, yet ſpeaks with an indifferency, which amounts to a reproach.
  • 1897, Edward Vizetelly, The Remininiscences of a Bashi-bazouk
His assistants, the Ganymedae of the place, in the form of three or four dirty-looking lads of the same race as himself, unabashed by the coarse remarks and imprecations levelled at them by the half-inebriated, debacchating customers, hurried from counter to table distributing the poison and taking the money.
Most local psychics seemed to have moved over to the East Bay. (That's the last time I listen to Hallinan's debacchating.)