[f. CRAPULENT: see -ENCE.] 1. Sickness or indisposition resulting from excess in drinking or eating.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Crapulence, surfeiting by over-eating.
1755. Johnson, Crapulence, drunkenness, sickness by intemperance.
2. Gross intemperance, esp. in drinking; debauchery.
1825. R. P. Ward, Tremaine, I. xx. 144. A thousand amiable qualities … were lost in this crapulence.
1859. R. F. Burton, Centr. Afr., in Jrnl. Geog. Soc., XXIX. 163. The men are idle and debauched, spending their days in unbroken crapulence and drunkenness.
