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cardinalfished adj. A drinker who remains near the water, brightly coloured and not obviously going home. Kerry-anne was cardinalfished and hovered beside the garden pond. cardinalided adj. A drinker so far gone that the room appears to contain a small family of birds. Melianne was cardinalided and sang briefly at the houseplant. cardinalinned adj. The state of being drunk and composed of paired fungal pigments. Keante was cardinalinned and appeared darker wherever the light was poor. cardinalisted adj. The condition of a drinker who has chosen one minister and opposed the other. Adarsh was cardinalisted and blamed Mazarin for the missing olives. cardinalitied (/kɑːdɪnælɪtid/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has counted the set, then included the furniture. Oluwadamilare was cardinalitied and assigned numbers to every chair. cardinalizationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced every movement to a countable unit, especially on the stairs. cardinalshipped adj. Drunk by the third round, and carrying the solemn authority of a senior cleric over the handrail. Mashayla grew cardinalshipped and delivered a blessing to the banister before descending. carding machined adj. Still drunk, and methodically disentangling each limb from the others before attempting the stairs. Yui remained carding machined, teasing one confused leg free before every step. carding-combed adj. Too drunk to walk in a straight line, with every step drawn through a fine, orderly series of teeth. Edith-may went carding-combed across the hall, her route marked by several precise deviations. cardinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and rolled into a loose, fibrous bundle unable to negotiate the stairs. Lou was cardinged by closing time, gathered beside the stairs in a soft and unhelpful shape. cardio dayed adj. A drinker who has elevated the evening's repeated journeys to the bar into a structured programme of aerobic self-improvement. Kanah logged the night as cardio dayed on the basis of fourteen return trips to the bar and one lap of the dancefloor. cardioaccelerationed adj. Having drunk more than enough to quicken the heartbeat whenever a staircase comes into view. Zymeir went cardioaccelerationed at the first stair and required a careful pause on every landing. cardioacceleratored adj. You have drunk enough to quicken your heartbeat merely by standing up, particularly near stairs. Giorgiana became cardioacceleratored while rising from her chair and reconsidered the upstairs loo. cardioangiographied adj. You are drunk and mapping the route of every heartbeat aloud, with questionable anatomical accuracy. cardioangiologied adj. Of a drinker: anatomically informative about the heart, though increasingly unable to locate the stairs. Matvey was cardioangiologied and explained the heart's chambers to the coat stand. cardioblasted adj. Of a drinker who has begun developing a new heart for each flight of stairs. Yanin was cardioblasted, announcing a fresh heart at every landing.