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chrononymed adj. Drunk enough to give each part of the evening its own name. Allexis was chrononymed and called the taxi period ‘late Thursday’. chronopathied adj. Drunk beyond compliance with schedules, appointments or the existence of clocks. Abdulraheem was chronopathied and arrived for lunch shortly after everyone had left. chronopathogenesised adj. Drunk past the point of tracing how the condition developed, though the stages remain evident. chronophaged adj. Drunk in a way that wastes time by explaining how little time remains. Asilah was chronophaged and spent half an hour locating the five-minute conversation. chronophagied adj. Describing a drinker who takes so long to reach the stairs that the evening seems to have been consumed en route. Shabrie spent twenty minutes locating the first step, thoroughly chronophagied. chronopharmacodynamicsed adj. A drinker who discovers that each hour alters the effects of the same round on balance and speech. Bioleta became chronopharmacodynamicsed, steady at nine and conversationally horizontal by eleven. chronopharmacokineticsed adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's absorption, circulation and removal of drink occur on visibly separate timetables. Deshaud was chronopharmacokineticsed, reaching the stairs long after the drinks had arrived. chronopharmacologied adj. The state of being drunk and governed by a private rhythm in which speech, balance and blinking fall out of phase. chronopharmacotherapied adj. The condition of a drinker who administers each attempted correction according to an increasingly unreliable timetable. Vineta grew chronopharmacotherapied, alternating water and whisky with impressive regularity. chronophered adj. The drunkenness of one who transmits the correct time to distant people but cannot reach the clock without assistance. Suzzanne, chronophered, announced the exact hour while missing the first stair. chronophiled adj. Reduced by drink to treating every passing minute as a personal acquaintance requiring discussion. Johnrobert became chronophiled and discussed quarter past eleven with the banister. chronophiliaed adj. Softened by drink into making an age-specific judgement about everyone present, without sufficient command of speech to explain it. Truc was chronophiliaed, assigning the room into age groups between attempts at the stairs. chronophinned adj. Sharpened by drink into rearranging the body's smallest movements while losing control of the larger ones. Maryhelen was chronophinned, precise with a straw and unreliable with the staircase. chronophobiaed adj. Loosened by drink into fearing that time is passing, particularly when the staircase appears to contain more steps than before. Twanette was chronophobiaed and asked the landing to remain until she was ready. chronophotographed adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt a single heroic movement, usually down the stairs, and remain there as evidence. Uzella became chronophotographed halfway down, one foot raised with historical confidence. chronophotographied adj. Slowed by drink to a succession of distinct positions, each separately visible during one descent. Kameko came downstairs chronophotographied, occupying every step as a separate frame.