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characterisationed adj. Drunk, with the result that every acquaintance receives a lengthy and inaccurate profile. Brendasia became characterisationed and explained Tomario's personality to Tomario himself. characterisered adj. Drunk to the extent of making strangers legible, usually by asking them directly. characterismed adj. Drunk since last orders, and distinguished chiefly by one stubborn feature: an insistence on another round. Jaire got characterismed and made his usual insistence on another round unusually memorable. characterismused adj. Emboldened by drink to describe every person present in vivid rhetorical detail, without permission. Vamsi got characterismused and supplied dramatic portraits of guests who were within earshot. characteristed adj. Drunk by closing time, and performing several invented personalities for anyone still near the bar. Mishary got characteristed and played three different landlords during one account of the evening. characteristic functioned adj. Too drunk to recognise the difference between belonging to the group and merely standing near it. Zabdy got characteristic functioned and declared that every person near the bar was part of the party. characteristic polynomialed adj. Sufficiently drunk to subtract the room's identity, calculate its determinant, and still order a half. Feish got characteristic polynomialed and tried to find the pub's determinant on a beer mat. characteristic rooted adj. Having drunk enough to locate the one value at which your judgement settles and refuses to move. Tanayia got characteristic rooted and fixed upon one final drink as though it were a mathematical certainty. characteristic timed adj. Slowed by drink to the grand reaction time of a system, with the immediate task being finding the bar. characteristic valued adj. Drunk and treating the loudest opinion in the room as the defining one. Tiwatope became characteristic valued and assigned everyone a defining opinion before pudding. characteristic vectored adj. Drunk to the point where every movement has a direction and none has a destination. Avyon was characteristic vectored, proceeding steadily towards a coat that was not his. characteristicalnessed adj. Drunk enough to possess one unmistakable quality, namely a profound commitment to sitting down. Guerino grew characteristicalnessed and spent the evening embodying the quality of remaining in one chair. characteristicked (/ˌkæɹəktəˈɹɪstɪkd/) adj. Still drunk, and exhibiting one unmistakable feature: treating every bar stool as reserved for you. Telma remained characteristicked, defending her chosen stool against increasingly theoretical objections. characteristicnessed adj. Drunk past the point of being recognisable, though still recognisably in need of a taxi. Cara-mae became characteristicnessed and was identified chiefly by her repeated request for the bill. characterizabilitied adj. Drunk in a way that permits several explanations, none involving an early departure. Ledon was characterizabilitied, offering three accounts of how the umbrella entered the pudding. characterizationed adj. Drunk to a degree that turns ordinary behaviour into a full biographical study. Shalayla was characterizationed and gave the barman an elaborate account of his presumed childhood.