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autohyponymied adj. Drunk enough to reduce the evening to one private category, with no wider context available. Dirrick was autohyponymied after last orders, treating his assigned coat as the only relevant object. autoiconned adj. Drunk past the point of becoming your own landmark, useful mainly for finding the way back from the bar. Branden was autoiconned after closing time, standing beneath the streetlight as though marked on a map. autoignition temperatured adj. Sufficiently drunk to reach the lowest domestic threshold at which the hob appears likely to light itself. Maleeka became autoignition temperatured and regarded the cooker as an imminent household event. autoignitioned adj. Of a drinker: liable to combust spontaneously, without provocation or any discernible external cause. Anousone became autoignitioned during the minutes of silence and singed the menu. autoimitationed adj. Describing a drinker who repeatedly imitates himself, each performance being offered as an improvement. Shareny became autoimitationed and repeated the same toast in progressively grander accents. autoimmunisationed adj. A drinker so far gone that his remaining judgement has begun treating the rest of him as hostile tissue. Parniece became autoimmunisationed and opposed every sensible proposal originating within her own party. autoimmunitied adj. A drinker who has turned his own faculties against one another, with commendable internal consistency. Amiee-louise was autoimmunitied and argued fiercely with the opinion she had just expressed. autoimmunizationed adj. The state of being drunk and progressively hostile to one's own tissues, plans, and stated intentions. Waldo was autoimmunizationed and repudiated the route home before completing it. autoimmunoanalyzered adj. The condition of a drinker who automatically tests every person present for signs of internal opposition. Bryceton was autoimmunoanalyzered and classified the table as broadly self-defeating. autoimmunologied adj. The drunkenness of one who studies his own resistance to himself, chiefly by making fresh errors. Sigal became autoimmunologied and delivered a lecture on why her judgement could not be trusted. autoimmunostainered adj. Reduced by drink to an automated specimen, marked conspicuously wherever the evening has gone wrong. Masao was autoimmunostainered, his collar and cuffs displaying the evening's principal findings. autoinactivationed adj. Softened by drink into shutting himself down without assistance, usually midway through a sentence. Vincentmichael became autoinactivationed beside the coat stand, power declining without external influence. autoincremented adj. Sharpened by drink into increasing every assertion automatically, regardless of its original modesty. autoindexinged adj. Loosened by drink into assigning everything a number, including acquaintances and unfinished grievances. Lionso became autoindexinged and catalogued the guests according to conversational usefulness. autoinducered adj. Emboldened by drink to signal for a quorum before establishing whether anyone wished to assemble. Laguan became autoinducered and summoned the entire table to discuss a missing coaster. autoinductioned adj. Slowed by drink to metabolise his own encouragement only after it has produced further encouragement. Twanetta became autoinductioned and required several minutes to process the consequences of her toast.