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verb

Intoxicate v. t. (past & past part. intoxicated; pres. part. intoxicating)

To poison; to drug.

To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. "With new wine inoxicated both."

To excite to a transport of enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; to elate unduly or excessively. "Intoxicated with the sound of those very bells." "They are not intoxicated by military success."

adjective

Intoxicating adj. Producing intoxication; fitted to intoxicate; as, intoxicating liquors.

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Etymology of 'Intoxicating'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intoxicating" Quotes from Famous Books

... old-fashioned Dutch shingles—broad and with rounded corners—and painted a dull grey; a tint which, when contrasted with the vivid green of the tulip trees that overshadowed the entrance to the house, and reared themselves high above it on either side, afforded an artistic happiness perfectly intoxicating to its present visitor. The architecture of the cottage was—if not Early Tudor—something equally pleasing. Its roofs were divided into many gables; its windows were diamond paned and projecting, ...

— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell

... Six years of such intoxicating life and then—the end. Louis is lying on his death-bed and, with fear in his eyes and a tardy penitence on his lips, is saying to her, "Madame, it is time that we should part." And, indeed, the hour of parting had arrived; for a ...

— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall

... into a large room with a flat roof that was being hastily prepared for me by the hanging of beautiful broideries on the walls, and sat me on a carven stool, where presently Quilla and other ladies brought me food and a kind of intoxicating drink which they called chicha, that after so many months of water drinking I found cheering and pleasant to the taste. This food, I noted, was served to me on platters of gold and silver, and the cups also were of gold strangely fashioned, by which I knew that I had come to a very rich ...

— The Virgin of the Sun • H. R. Haggard

... matter and an aromatic spirit), "it's stimulating because of" (here he mentioned two very vivid tonics, one with a marked action on the kidney.) "And the" (here he mentioned two other ingredients) "makes it pretty intoxicating. Cocks their tails. Then there's" (but I touch on the essential secret.) "And there you are. I got it out of an old book of recipes—all except the" (here he mentioned the more virulent substance, ...

— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells

... most couples. Mostly, it is about wings. There seems to be a something fundamental about both Charles-Norton and Dolly which irresistibly makes them diverge on the question of the proper length of wings (male wings at least). For a time, in fact, during the first months of their intoxicating public success and before they had arrived to the present adjustment, the question threatened to bring the conjugal craft to a final wreck. Strangely enough (or naturally enough) it is a catastrophe that eased the situation. One night, ...

— The Trimming of Goosie • James Hopper

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