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Intoxication

noun

The physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance. Synonyms: poisoning, toxic condition.

A temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol. Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, tipsiness.

Excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety.

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"Intoxication" Quotes from Famous Books

... indeed in some measure avoided, but of which there is no lack in the other poets, are the least part of the evil. Features far worse are, the dreadful desolation of life in which the only oases are lovemaking and intoxication; the fearfully prosaic atmosphere, in which anything resembling enthusiasm is to be found only among the sharpers whose heads have been turned by their own swindling, and who prosecute the trade of cheating with some sort of zeal; and above all ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... garments dry on his body. For the empty feeling in his stomach, the damp and the cold to which he is thus daily exposed, his antidotes are tobacco and rum, the first he chews and smokes. In the use of the second he seldom goes to the extent of intoxication. ...

— The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation • R.A. Van Middeldyk

... unapproachable beauty. She would move from city to city like a queen of romance, leaving marveling multitudes behind her and impatient multitudes awaiting her coming. Her life, during one hour of each day, upon the platform, would be a rapturous intoxication—and when the curtain fell; and the lights were out, and the people gone, to nestle in their homes and forget her, she would find in sleep oblivion of her homelessness, if she could, if not she would brave out ...

— The Gilded Age, Part 7. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner

... the chase had possession of me. I had tasted blood and felt the fierce joy of the puma and the wild intoxication of a ...

— The Black Wolf Pack • Dan Beard

... did this intoxication last? We cannot tell. But whether it filled years or months, the dream was so beautiful that humanity has lived upon it ever since. Happy he to whom it has been granted to behold with his own eyes this divine blossoming, and to share, if but for a day, the incomparable ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

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