Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-E'BRI-ATE, v.t. [L. inebrio, inebriatus; in and ebrio, to intoxicate; ebrius, soaked, drenched, drunken. The Latin ebrius is contractcd from ebrigus or ebregus, as appears from the Spanish embriagar, to intoxicate; embriago, inebriated; It. briaco, drunk; imbriacare, imbriacarsi. The sense is to wash or drench, and it is evidently from the common root of the Gr. βρεχω, to water or irrigate. See Rain.]

1. To make drunk; to intoxicate. Sandys.
2. To disorder the senses; to stupefy, or to make furious or frantic; to produce effects like those of liquor, which are various in different constitutions.