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Definition: EBRIETY

Part of Speech Definition
Noun 1. Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Ebriety" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology:Ebriety \E*bri"e*ty\, noun; plural Ebrieties. [Latin ebrietas, from. ebrius intoxicated: compare to French ['e]bri['e]te. Compare to So?er.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: EBRIETY

Domain Definition
Noah Webster [Noun] Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Health Drunkenness. (references)
Wiktionary 1: [Noun] (obsolete) An instance of being drunk. (references)
  2: [Noun] (uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness. 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351: God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth. (references)

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Definition: EBRIETY

Part of SpeechDefinition
Noun1. Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "EBRIETY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Etymology:Ebriety \E*bri"e*ty\, noun; plural Ebrieties. [Latin ebrietas, from. ebrius intoxicated: compare to French ['e]bri['e]te. Compare to So?er.]. (references)

Specialty Definition: EBRIETY

DomainDefinition
Noah Webster [Noun] Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
HealthDrunkenness. (references)
Wiktionary1: [Noun] (obsolete) An instance of being drunk. (references)
 2: [Noun] (uncountable) The state of intoxication, drunkenness. 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 351: God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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