inebriety
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Thus in the allegorical Vishnuite drama called Prabodhacandrodaya and written at Kalanjar near the end of the eleventh century Buddhists and Jains are represented as succumbing to the temptations of inebriety and voluptuousness.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
A diet consisting chiefly of apples has been found an excellent cure for inebriety.
From Food Remedies Facts About Foods And Their Medicinal Uses by Florence Daniel
It was not likely she had given him money, said Cutler, because he was about the post all that day after the Plumes' departure and with never a sign of inebriety.
From An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier by Frederic Remington
However, 't is expedient to be wary: Indifference certes don't produce distress; And rash enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common.
From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
