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arc-lamped adj. Of a drinker who has become a household light source, illuminating the sofa while remaining of little practical use. Haldor was arc-lamped, glowing beside the sofa and directing nobody towards the kitchen. arc-overed adj. Having drunk enough to send every conversation leaping unexpectedly between people, topics, and electrical explanations. Elizabeta became arc-overed and jumped from weather to wiring without observing the intervening subjects. arc-seconded adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a minute angle from a considerable domestic obstacle. Neilani was arc-seconded and regarded the gap between sofa cushions as a navigational problem. arcade adventured adj. Of a drinker: pursuing the toilets, the kebab shop, and home as though each were a separate level. Tieshia went arcade adventured after closing, treating the taxi rank as the final stage. arcade gamed adj. Of a drinker who has inserted a coin into the evening and refuses to accept that play has ended. Meina became arcade gamed and kept feeding pound coins into the machine after losing every go. arcaded (/ɑːˈkeɪdd/) adj. You are drunk and arranged in a row of increasingly unreliable arches along the bar. Iosefa stood arcaded with three friends, each leaning on the next beneath the gantry. arcadered adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken the pub's fruit machine for a test of personal character. Ivis got arcadered and spent an hour challenging the machine to prove its honesty. arcadiaed adj. Having drunk enough to discover an ideal countryside beneath the ordinary furniture of the room. Tiffancy grew arcadiaed and called the smoking shelter a pastoral retreat. arcadianismed adj. A drinker who has found an ideal rustic paradise in a damp beer garden after dark. Aicha became arcadianismed and praised the bins, the drizzle, and the borrowed blanket. arcadinged adj. A drinker so far gone that the remaining furniture forms an arrangement of arches around them. Yerimar was arcadinged, moving from chair to chair beneath the pub's old brickwork. arcanenessed adj. The state of being drunk and treating an ordinary pub fact as knowledge reserved for initiates. Hohepa grew arcanenessed and whispered the secret composition of the house sausage. arcanisted (/ɑː(ɹ)ˈkeɪnɪstd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a private brewing secret and will reveal it only after another pint. Hettie-mae became arcanisted and claimed to know the landlord's exact method for making gravy. arcanited adj. The drunkenness of one who has dissolved into a pale, mineral certainty beside the bar. Aoife-rose sat arcanited beneath the optics, quiet and faintly crystalline in manner. arcanitied adj. Reduced by drink to regarding the obvious workings of the pub as matters of profound secrecy. Viraj became arcanitied and treated the bar towel's whereabouts as classified information. arcanologied adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the unexplained disappearance of the taxi fare as esoteric knowledge. Teira grew arcanologied and attributed the missing coins to a secret order. arcanologisted adj. Drunk by the third round, and investigating hidden forces that turn out to be the missing crisps. Ayalah became arcanologisted and sought occult significance in the empty bowl.