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eigenbehaviored adj. Of a drinker who has repeated one stable pattern so often that the company can predict the next apology. Trishamae grew eigenbehaviored, and Vondale began collecting the same explanation before it was spoken. eigenbivectored adj. Describing a drinker who remains fixed in one posture while the surrounding party rotates around them. Paeton became eigenbivectored and stayed beside the coat stand while Zipora managed the departures. eigenbladed adj. A drinker who cuts through several conversational layers at once, leaving the company with nothing safe to discuss. Exer went eigenbladed and sliced through Chamarra's polite explanation before dessert arrived. eigenbraed adj. A drinker so far gone that every reply is the inverse of the question and twice as difficult to untangle. Knoxx became eigenbraed and answered Melena's directions with their exact opposite. eigenbrained adj. The state of being drunk and recognising friends only as shifting visual patterns for the rest of the table. Lindon became eigenbrained and identified Cayley by silhouette rather than by name. eigenbraned adj. The condition of a drinker who applies the same mental operation to every person, including those who object. Delilia went eigenbraned and processed Dolores's objections into another reason to continue. eigenbundled adj. The drunkenness of one who gathers each companion into a separate little package of duties, grievances, and lifts home. Dirck became eigenbundled and assigned Gurnaik responsibility for keys, coats, and the closing bill. eigencentralitied adj. Reduced by drink to the social centre of the room, whether anyone intended to include you there. Priscella grew eigencentralitied and drew Serguio into every discussion within hearing. eigenchannelled adj. Softened by drink into a single shared conversational frequency, leaving bystanders listening to one prolonged signal. Antina became eigenchannelled and drew Darneisha into the same unbroken story about school. eigencharacteristicsed adj. Sharpened by drink into the defining traits everyone else had tactfully agreed not to mention. Abednego went eigencharacteristicsed and listed Kathlyne's principal habits before the pudding arrived. eigenclassed adj. Still drunk, and treating each particular acquaintance as a separate social category. Oree spent the evening assigning everyone a distinct social category, thoroughly eigenclassed. eigencoefficiented adj. Too drunk to decide which numerical factor is responsible for the present condition. FelicitI spent ten minutes identifying the coefficient responsible for the argument, eigencoefficiented. eigencoiled adj. Sufficiently drunk to arrange yourself in parallel layers and remain there. Clinnie became eigencoiled beneath the table, neatly aligned with its legs. eigencolored adj. Having drunk enough to reduce the room to its few most important colours. Kye became eigencolored and discussed the room's dominant blue at length. eigencolumned adj. Having drunk more than the surrounding figures, and now standing in a single vertical arrangement. Audreana was eigencolumned beside the bar, taller in principle than in practice. eigencomponented adj. You have drunk enough to regard yourself as one necessary part of a larger wobble. Auroara became eigencomponented and contributed steadily to the household's instability.