ebriate

English

Etymology

From Latin ebrius (“drunk”).

Adjective

ebriate (comparative more ebriate, superlative most ebriate)

1. (obsolete) Drunk; intoxicated.
   • 1843, John Hood, Australia and the East, page 319:

     One moment the retailer of tea, sugar, rum, and tobacco; the next, the ebriate solace of her ebriate mate.

   • 1847 June, Aquilius, “Horæ Catullianæ”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 61, number 380, page 704:

     Acme then her head reflecting, Kiss'd her sweet youth's ebriate eyes, With her rosy lips connecting Looks that glistened with replies.

   • 1876, P. Whalley, “Translations from the Díwán of ZíB-un-nisá Begam, poetically styed 'Makhfí, duahter of the Emperor Aurangzíb”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume 45, number 3, page 310:

     Here before lords of the brain, why and till when, foolishly vain, Sett'st thou forth, crown of the feast, drunkard, thy soft ebriate strain?

Verb

ebriate (third-person singular simple present ebriates, present participle ebriating, simple past and past participle ebriated)

1. (obsolete) To intoxicate.
   • 1783 January, “The Congress of Cythera”, in The European Magazine: And London Review, volume 3, page 32:

     Their seductive colouring ebriates, and libertinism reigns triumphant.

   • 1852, “Stabat Mater”, in William John Blew, Henry John Gauntlett, editors, The Church Hymn and Tune Book, page 19:

     Make me with Thy stripes sore-stricken, With Thy cross my spirit quicken— Ebriate—but not with wine: Cheer me, and with mercy brighten, Shield me, and my darkness lighten, When the Day of Doom shall shine.

Noun

ebriate (plural ebriates)

1. (obsolete) A drunkard.
   • 1877, The Twentieth Century - Volume 1, page 705:

     The fact that it had been given for religious purposes would seem to point to its being spent on good and charitable works, such as hospitals, bridges, improvement of the dwellings of the poor, especially in large cities , foundation of asylums for ebriates, and the like.