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temulent, a. Now rare.|ˈtɛmjʊlənt|
[ad. L. tēmulent-us, from root tēm- in tēmētum intoxicating drink, after vinolentus from vinum wine.]
Drunken, intoxicated; given to, characterized by, or proceeding from drunkenness; intoxicating.
1628Jackson Creed vi. xiii. §1 Clytus, whom he had newly slain in his temulent rage. 1668G. C. in H. More Div. Dial. Pref. i. (1713) 14 Such tipsie and temulent Raptures. a1770Chatterton in Europ. Mag. (1804) XLV. 85 Sooner..Than I, to frenzy temulent, with love, False to its palpitating precepts prove. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 494 Sometimes it produces a temulent effect.
Hence ˈtemulently adv., ˈtemulentness; also, † temuˈlentious, † temuˈlentive adjs., drunken.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 210 The Spaniards are proud: The French inconstant:..the Dutch *temulencious.
1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxxxiv. 241 A swimming Eye; a Face both roast and sod; a *temulentiue Tongue.
1623Cockeram ii, Drunkenly done, *temulently.
1727Bailey vol. II, Temulently, after a drunken Manner. *Temulentness, Drunkenness. |