intoxicatorn.

Brit.

/ɪnˈtɒksᵻkeɪtə/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈtɑksəˌkeɪdər/

Forms:

α. 1600s intoxicater.

β. 1600s– intoxicator.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: intoxicate v., -or suffix.

Etymology: < intoxicate v. + -or suffix. In sense 2 probably after post-classical Latin intoxicator poisoner (15th cent. in a British source); compare also Middle French intoxicateur poisoner (1517).With the α. forms compare -er suffix¹.

a. Something that causes a person to lose control of his or her behaviour or mental faculties, such as an alcoholic drink or a drug.

ΚΠ

1608 J. Downame tr. Pseudo-Augustine in Foure Treat. ii. ii. 84 Drunkennesse is the mother of outrages,..the fountaine of vice, the intoxicater of the head, the quelling of the senses,..the corruption of the soule.

1840 Ohio Observer 16 July A great majority of the cases which have called for the discipline of the church has been for smoking that national intoxicator, tobacco.

1881 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 2 July The champagne of that day was not the sparkling intoxicator of our time.

1945 Plainsman (Alabama Polytechnic Inst.) 18 July 3/2 After consuming a portion of that well known intoxicator, alcohol.

2018 Free Press Jrnl. (India) (Nexis) 25 Feb. Instead of consuming natural intoxicators like bhang, people now prefer having alcohol on Holi.

b. A person who intoxicates himself or herself by drinking alcohol, taking drugs, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > making drunk > one who intoxicates with drink

intoxicator1830

1830 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 209/1 We have read exactly to the fiftieth page (inclusive) of the work before us; and as it relates exclusively to what its Hibernian author is pleased to call the History of Intoxicating Liquors, we have ventured to give him the name of Donovan the Intoxicator.

1925 Hansard Commons 9 Dec. 537 If a man becomes a total abstainer from alcohol except on exceptional occasions, experience shows..that the exceptional occasions become more and more frequent, until at last the exception of the abstainer becomes hardly distinguishable from the rule of the intoxicator.

2005 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 8 July The intoxicators, who pass their lives at the corners of the roads, now mostly occupy the graveyard premises.

†2. A person who poisons someone; a poisoner. Obsolete. rare.In quot. as part of an extended metaphor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > poisoner

poisonerc1384

empoisonerc1405

envenomer1598

venomer1647

intoxicator1744

1744 J. Lewis Life R. Pecock 242 That most impious intoxicator, who had imbibed the poison of perfidiousness.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	intoxicator
释义	intoxicatorn. Brit. /ɪnˈtɒksᵻkeɪtə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈtɑksəˌkeɪdər/ Forms: α. 1600s intoxicater. β. 1600s– intoxicator. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: intoxicate v., -or suffix. Etymology: < intoxicate v. + -or suffix. In sense 2 probably after post-classical Latin intoxicator poisoner (15th cent. in a British source); compare also Middle French intoxicateur poisoner (1517).With the α. forms compare -er suffix¹. 1. a. Something that causes a person to lose control of his or her behaviour or mental faculties, such as an alcoholic drink or a drug. ΚΠ 1608 J. Downame tr. Pseudo-Augustine in Foure Treat. ii. ii. 84 Drunkennesse is the mother of outrages,..the fountaine of vice, the intoxicater of the head, the quelling of the senses,..the corruption of the soule. 1840 Ohio Observer 16 July A great majority of the cases which have called for the discipline of the church has been for smoking that national intoxicator, tobacco. 1881 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 2 July The champagne of that day was not the sparkling intoxicator of our time. 1945 Plainsman (Alabama Polytechnic Inst.) 18 July 3/2 After consuming a portion of that well known intoxicator, alcohol. 2018 Free Press Jrnl. (India) (Nexis) 25 Feb. Instead of consuming natural intoxicators like bhang, people now prefer having alcohol on Holi. b. A person who intoxicates himself or herself by drinking alcohol, taking drugs, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > making drunk > one who intoxicates with drink intoxicator1830 1830 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 209/1 We have read exactly to the fiftieth page (inclusive) of the work before us; and as it relates exclusively to what its Hibernian author is pleased to call the History of Intoxicating Liquors, we have ventured to give him the name of Donovan the Intoxicator. 1925 Hansard Commons 9 Dec. 537 If a man becomes a total abstainer from alcohol except on exceptional occasions, experience shows..that the exceptional occasions become more and more frequent, until at last the exception of the abstainer becomes hardly distinguishable from the rule of the intoxicator. 2005 Nation (Pakistan) (Nexis) 8 July The intoxicators, who pass their lives at the corners of the roads, now mostly occupy the graveyard premises. †2. A person who poisons someone; a poisoner. Obsolete. rare.In quot. as part of an extended metaphor. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > massacrer or slaughterer > [noun] > poisoner poisonerc1384 empoisonerc1405 envenomer1598 venomer1647 intoxicator1744 1744 J. Lewis Life R. Pecock 242 That most impious intoxicator, who had imbibed the poison of perfidiousness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1608
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