v. Also 9 dial. tossicate. Usually in pa. pple. tosticated, app. originally a mispronunciation of intoxicated and so used, but later also associated with tossed, tost, and used as = tossed about, distracted, perplexed. So Tostication. Common dialectally; cited in E.D.D. for many counties from W. Yorksh. to Somerset.
1650. J. Reynolds, Flower of Fidelity, 3. His tosticated conceits fixt upon renowned travel. Ibid., 42. Being tosticated with the beauty.
1691. Mrs. D’Anvers, Academia, 8. Madam’s most sadly tosticated, Knowing her Boy but empty-pated, Lest the soft Squire might starv’d be, When e’re he’s sent to th’ ’Versity.
1712. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, xlviii. I have been so tosticated about since my last.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, xvii. (1810), V. 181. I want these tostications (thou seest how women and women’s words fill my mind) to be over.
1811. Ora & Juliet, I. 32. Get thee to bed … and sleep off that odious strong liquor that has tosticated thy senses.
1828. Craven Gloss., Tossicated, tossed, perplexed. Also, drunk.
1881. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Tossicated, harassed; worried,—‘upset,’ as by vexation or trouble.
