drunken

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DRUNKEN, adjective Drunkn. [participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.] 1. Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor. 2. Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler. 3. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. 4. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel. A drunken slaughter.
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