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centistered adj. Softened by drink into a small, yielding volume best left beside the fire. Delaynee was centistered on the settle, softened into a quiet heap beside the handbags. centistoked adj. Sharpened by drink into a brisk but erroneous certainty about the bar’s plumbing. Hudson-james was centistoked, explaining the hand basin’s workings to three unwilling listeners. centiwatted adj. Loosened by drink into a faint electrical liveliness, with opinions leaking out continuously. Markese was centiwatted, sparking gently through an account of the pub’s defective neon. centnered adj. Emboldened by drink to carry a local weight, provided nobody asks what it weighs. Jazlen was centnered and volunteered to move the beer barrel without consulting gravity. centoed adj. Slowed by drink to speaking in borrowed fragments, assembled from every conversation nearby. Yalia was centoed, replying in quotations collected from the barmaid, the quiz team and the television. centoismed adj. You are drunk and composing poetry from other people's words, chiefly the ones on the drinks list. Blia became centoismed and turned the cocktail menu into a sonnet of doubtful merit. centoisted adj. Drunk and compiling other people’s remarks into an anthology nobody requested. Shandia was centoisted, arranging the evening’s stray opinions into a speech for the landlord. centonated adj. You have drunk enough to compose a grand literary work entirely from whatever sentences are nearest. Sohna grew centonated and delivered a solemn address assembled from the menu and a bus timetable. centonelled adj. Of a drinker who has appointed himself guard of the bannister and will not relinquish it. Joram went centonelled and escorted himself upstairs one rail at a time. centonismed adj. Of a drinker: composing an epic from borrowed remarks, which concludes with an order for chips. Fran was centonismed, arranging quotations from the company into a moving speech about gravy. centonisted adj. Having drunk more than enough to assemble every conversation from quotations by different authors. Avienda became centonisted and answered the landlord entirely in fragments from Victorian novels. centonizationed adj. Of a drinker who has assembled the evening from familiar phrases, themes and the occasional refrain about going home. Palmena became centonizationed, repeating a melody of apologies, toasts and requests for one last drink. centoried adj. Having drunk more than a hundredth of the available sense, and retaining none of it. Zyaria was centoried and confidently divided the bill into imaginary fractions. centothecoided adj. Describing a drinker who has become grasslike in posture and is lying across the lawn. Kylel was thoroughly centothecoided, reclining among the daisies with botanical dignity. centracanthided adj. A drinker who circles the table in small, silvery movements before settling beside the crisps. Carsan grew centracanthided and made several neat circuits of the buffet. centractinned adj. A drinker so far gone that the entire evening depends upon one small supporting unit, namely the barstool. Stokley became centractinned and treated the barstool as the evening's principal structural member.