Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-TOX-I-CA'TION
IN-TOX'I-CA-TINGIN-TRACT'A-BLE
IN-TOX-I-CA'TION, n.
Inebriation; inebriety; drunkenness; the act of making drunk. South. Technically, intoxication is made up of extraordinary exhilaration gradually increasing to delirium, with imperfect articulation and inability to regulate voluntary motion generally, which finally passes into unconsciousness and coma.
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