— intoxicable /in tok"si keuh beuhl/ , adj. — intoxicator , n.
v. /in tok"si kayt'/ ; adj. /in tok"seuh kit, -kayt'/ , v. , intoxicated, intoxicating , adj.
v.t.
1. to affect temporarily with diminished physical and mental control by means of alcoholic liquor, a drug, or another substance, esp. to excite or stupefy with liquor.
2. to make enthusiastic; elate strongly, as by intoxicants; exhilarate: The prospect of success intoxicated him.
3. Pathol. to poison.
v.i.
4. to cause or produce intoxication: having the power to intoxicate.
adj.
5. Archaic. intoxicated.
[ 1375-1425; late ME intoxicatus, ptp. of intoxicare to poison. See IN- 2 , TOXIC, -ATE 1 ]