Definition of Intoxicate

In`tox´i`cate
a.1.
1.Intoxicated.
2.Overexcited, as with joy or grief.
Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me;
I am well enough.
- Chapman.
v. t.1.To poison; to drug.
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.).


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