a. [ad. L. crāpulent-us very much intoxicated, f. crāpula: see above, and cf. vinolentus, violentus.]
1. Of or pertaining to crapulence; suffering from excessive drinking, eating, etc.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Crapulent … surfeiting or oppressed with surfeit.
1694. Westmacott, Script. Herb. (1695), 229. In crapulent cases, and after a drunken Debauch.
1863. Possib. of Creation, 287. When the collective wisdom of the country was in an intensely crapulent state.
2. Given to gross intemperance.
1888. Open Court, 12 April, 881. The crapulent monks.
