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Intoxicate definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTOX'ICATE, v.t. [in and L. toxicum, which, Pliny informs us, is from taxa, a species of tree.]
1. To inebriate; to make drunk; as with spirituous liquor.
As with new wine intoxicated both,
They swim in mirth--
2. To excite the spirits to a kind of delirium; to elate to enthusiasm, frenzy or madness. Success may sometimes intoxicate a man of sobriety. An enthusiast may be intoxicated and zeal.
INTOX'ICATE, a. Inebriated.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: fill with high spirits; fill with optimism; "Music can uplift your spirits" [syn: elate, lift up, uplift, pick up, intoxicate] [ant: cast down, deject, demoralise, demoralize, depress, dismay, dispirit, get down]
2: make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) [syn: intoxicate, soak, inebriate]
3: have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 15th century archaic intoxicated II. transitive verb (-cated; -cating) Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin intoxicatus, past participle of intoxicare, from Latin in- + toxicum poison — more at toxic Date: 15th century 1. poison 2. a. to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished b. to excite or elate to the point of enthusiasm or frenzy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 make drunk. 2 excite or elate beyond self-control. Derivatives: intoxicatingly adv. intoxication n. Etymology: med.L intoxicare (as IN-(2), toxicare poison f. L toxicum): see TOXIC

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intoxicate In*tox"i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intoxicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Intoxicating.] 1. To poison; to drug. --South. 2. To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. --Milton. 3. To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively. Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells. --G. Eliot. They are not intoxicated by military success. --Jowett (Thuc. ).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Intoxicate In*tox"i*cate, a. [LL. intoxicatus, p. p. of intoxicare to drug or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were dipped, Gr. ?, fr. ? pertaining to a bow. See Toxic.] 1. Intoxicated. 2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. --Chapman.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Inebriate, fuddle, muddle, make drunk, make tipsy.

Moby Thesaurus

addle, animate, befuddle, bemuse, besot, bewitch, cause vertigo, dizzy, elate, electrify, enchant, enliven, enrapture, ensorcel, entrance, excite, exhilarate, fascinate, flush, galvanize, give a thrill, inebriate, infatuate, inspirit, invigorate, muddle, overwhelm, stimulate, stupefy, swirl the senses, thrill, tickle, titillate, whirl the mind