a. [f. L. ēbri-us + -OUS.]
a. Addicted to drink; tipsy. b. Characteristic of the intoxicated state. Hence Ebriously adv.
1569. Newton, Cicero’s Old Age, 33. The Cuppes of drinke not ebriously swilled but moderatlye tasted.
1630. Prynne, Anti-Armin., 268. The second was but … a dissolute, ebrious, prophane, luxurious English-Dutchman.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Ebrious, drunken, or that causeth drunkenness.
1858. Cassell’s Art Treas. Exhib., 412. Those young sots with the ebrious faces.
