What does "intoxicate" mean?
Intoxicate: Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.
Additional senses
- 2.To poison; to drug. South.
- 3.To make drunk; to inebriate; to excite or to stupefy by strong drink or by a narcotic substance. With new wine inoxicated both. Milton.
- 4.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. ).
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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