(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:24:29

In*e`bri*a"tion (?), n. [L. inebriatio.]

The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success.

Sir T. Browne.

Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay.

Syn. -- See Drunkenness.

 

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