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intoxication|ɪntɒksɪˈkeɪʃən|
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[n. of action f. intoxicate v.; cf. F. intoxication (1408 in Hatz.-Darm.), in sense 1.]
1. The action of poisoning; administration of poison; killing by poison; the state of being poisoned; an instance of this. Obs. exc. Med.
1548Hall Chron., 3 Rich. III (1809) 407 Either by..pensyvenes of hearte, or by intoxicacion of poison..within a few daies the Quene departed oute of this transitorie lyfe. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 103 His bloud..being drunk in Wine, it is good against poisoned wounds and all intoxications. 1842E. P. Davis in Med. News I. 310 (Cent.) It has been supposed that only in the case of abraded surfaces could intoxication with solutions [of corrosive sublimate] of 1 to 1000 and 1 to 2000 occur. 1896Allbutt's Syst. Med. I. 720 The palsy which occasionally appears in or after enteric fever is..due to diphtheria intoxication.
attrib.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 949 Schweinitz maintains that it is an intoxication-amblyopia similar to that caused by tobacco. 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases Introd. 14 There is a class of intoxication diseases which depend on toxins generated by germs whose habitat is the soil, water, or other external media.
2. The action of rendering stupid, insensible, or disordered in intellect, with a drug or alcoholic liquor; the making drunk or inebriated; the condition of being so stupefied or disordered.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. vi. 101 The prevalent intoxication is from the spirits of drink dispersed into the veynes and arteries. 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xiii. §4 The English law does not admit intoxication as a ground of excuse. 1817Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. i. 12 He [Coleridge] had for some time relinquished his English mode of intoxication by brandy and water for the Turkish fashion of intoxication of opium. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 34 In Sparta..any one found in a state of intoxication is severely punished.
b. Intoxicating quality. rare.
1674tr. Martiniere's Voy. N. Countries 32 A certain grain which gives it [strong water] the same strength and intoxication as ours.
c. concr. An intoxicating draught. rare.
1799E. King Munim. Antiqua I. Pref. 19 Proudly quaffing a vile intoxication from the excavated skull of his enemy.
3. fig.
†a. The ‘poisoning’ of the moral or mental faculties; a cause or occasion of this. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 551 The..insypient drynkyth the swete and delycious wordis vnauysydly, and perceyuyth not entoxycacion whiche they ben myngyd or myxte with. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxv. §15 Whatsoever knowledge reason cannot at all worke upon and conuert, is a meere intoxication and indangereth a dissolution of the minde and understanding. 1660Eng. Monarchy freest State in World 11 Being extricated and quitted from the poysonous intoxications of some very viperous Spirits. 1728Morgan Algiers I. Pref. 5 They are prejudiced, even to intoxication, against the whole world besides.
b. The action or power of exhilarating or highly exciting the mind; elation or excitement beyond the bounds of sobriety.
1712Addison Spect. No. 351 ⁋15 That secret Intoxication of Pleasure. 1752Young Brothers ii. i. 17 He's ever warbling nonsense in her ear With all the intoxication of success. 1796Burke Regic. Peace i. Wks. VIII. 104 This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success..it was projected. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 194 The intoxication of wealth and power, in which men forget their weakness and mortality. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 279 He is going out of his mind in the first intoxication of a great thought. |