Obs. [L. crāpula excessive drinking, inebriation, intoxication, ad. Gr. κραιπάλη drunken headache or nausea, the result of a drunken debauch. In adopting the Gr. word, the Romans seem to have put the cause for the result; both senses are found in the English derivatives.]
1. The sickness or indisposition following upon a drunken or gluttonous debauch.
a. 1687. Cotton, Poems, Night Quatrains (1689), 248. The drunkard … when he wakes … shall find A cropala remains behind.
1721. Bailey, Crapula, a Surfeit by over-eating and drinking: Crop-sickness, Drunkenness.
2. A resin or drug productive of intoxication: a Latin use.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 424. If the wine when it is new be mighty and strong, they put in the more of this medicine or confection called Crapula.
