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DRUNKEN, a. Drunkn. participle of drink, but now used chiefly as an adjective, and often contracted to drunk.
1. Intoxicated; inebriated with strong liquor.
2. Given to drunkenness; as a drunken butler.
3. Saturated with liquor or moisture; drenched.
Let the earth be drunken with our blood.
4. Proceeding from intoxication; done in a state of drunkenness; as a drunken quarrel.
A drunken slaughter.
DRUNKENNESS, n.
1. Intoxication; inebriation; a state in which a person is overwhelmed or overpowered with spirituous liquors, so that his reason is disordered, and he reels or staggers in walking. Drunkenness renders some persons stupid, others gay, others sullen, others furious.
Let us walk honestly as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness.
2. Habitually ebriety or intoxication.
3. Disorder of the faculties resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.
Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.
"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read" —Isaiah 34:16, KJV
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