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centchromanned adj. Of a drinker: chemically confident, reproductively theoretical, and no longer consulting ordinary prudence. Detric became centchromanned and offered unsolicited opinions on everyone else's domestic arrangements. cented (/sɛntd/) adj. Having drunk enough to count the cost of every round in tiny monetary units. Quest was cented, calculating the taxi fare down to the final coin. centellosided adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a botanical gloss, a creeping optimism, and no credible account of the previous hour. Oliviah was centellosided and described the damp pavement as therapeutic foliage. centenared adj. Describing a drinker who commands precisely a hundred minor operations, none of them successfully. Velmarie became centenared and attempted to marshal a hundred crisps into formation. centenarianed (/ˌsɛntəˈnɛːrɪənd/) adj. A drinker who has acquired the dignity of a century and the mobility of its furniture. Raengel was centenarianed and required a formal pause before rising from the bar stool. centenarianismed adj. A drinker so far gone that age has ceased to be measured in years and is now measured in eras. Alenda was centenarianismed and claimed to remember the pub before electricity. centenaried (/sɛnˈtiːn(ə)rid/) adj. The state of being drunk and officered over a hundred invisible subordinates. centeniered adj. The condition of a drinker who supervises a hundred matters while resolving none of them. Rosan was centeniered and attempted to oversee the pub's cutlery from the doorway. centenionalised adj. The drunkenness of one who has become broad, bronze, and negotiable for rather less than expected. Cathirine was centenionalised and offered herself as change for the next round. centennialed (/sɛnˈtɛnɪəld/) adj. Reduced by drink to commemorating the same event repeatedly, each time as its hundredth anniversary. Lakedrick became centennialed and toasted the bar's reopening for the fourth time that evening. centenniumed adj. Softened by drink into a hundred-year interval, with the present moment no longer pressing. Andrewjacob became centenniumed and considered the last bus an arrangement for a later century. center backed adj. Drunk by the third round, and guarding the route to the loos as though it were a goal. Alxis was center backed, blocking the corridor while insisting nobody could get past. center circled adj. Having drunk more than the opening whistle permits, and entering the pitch before invited. Aranjit was center circled and wandered into the middle of the garden at kick-off. center consoled adj. Slowed by drink to the point where operating a radio or locating the handbrake becomes an executive task. center fielded adj. Drunk and stationed beyond the immediate argument, yet still attempting to catch every poorly directed remark. Mahogani became center fielded and positioned himself behind the conversation, ready for improbable catches. center fieldered adj. Drunk to the point where every incoming statement is treated as a ball requiring an athletic response. Nela became center fieldered and lunged across the table to intercept an ordinary question.