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imaginary lat syndromed (/ɪˌmæd͡ʒɪn(ə)ɹi ˈlæt ˌsɪndɹəʊmd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of believing the arms require considerably more clearance than the doorway provides. imaginary museumed adj. Drunk since last orders, and arranging the pub’s accidental decorations into a private national collection. Montica was imaginary museumed, explaining why the cracked mirror belonged beside the faded darts trophy. imaginary numbered adj. Drunk by the third round, and represented chiefly by a coefficient too small to justify another measure. imaginary parted adj. Drunk by closing time, and retaining only the portion of the evening that cannot be measured in pints. imaginary timed adj. Still drunk, and conducting the morning’s minutes as though the clock had taken an indirect route through the night. imaginary united adj. Too drunk to accept that squaring the evening can produce anything other than a negative result. Hence was imaginary united and argued that the tab’s final figure required a special sort of arithmetic. imaginationalismed adj. Having drunk enough to treat the ideal pint as preferable to the one actually in hand. imaginationed (/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃənd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to furnish the bar with absent furniture and invite strangers to sit on it. Linas was imaginationed and offered a seat to the coat stand by the fireplace. imaginative fictioned adj. Having drunk more than the facts can support, and supplying the remainder with dragons, landlords and conviction. imaginativenessed adj. You have drunk enough to make each minor pub inconvenience the beginning of a considerable tale. Diabolique got imaginativenessed and found a saga in the landlord changing the music. imaginativitied adj. You are drunk and furnishing ordinary silence with plots, motives and a modest amount of fog. imaginatored adj. Of a drinker: inventing explanations for the evening faster than anyone can challenge them. Karre was imaginatored, claiming the missing umbrella had been recruited by the pub. imagined (/ɪˈmæ.d͡ʒɪnd/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a celebrated fictional encounter from an urgent personal arrangement. Mystery got imagined and invited the detective to explain the evening privately. imagineered adj. Still drunk, and turning the morning-after arrangements into an unnecessarily ambitious installation. Haroldas remained imagineered, arranging empty glasses as a participatory exhibit. imaginered adj. Drunk beyond imagining a grander fate for yourself than missing the last bus. imaginged adj. Drunk in a way that renders the invisible plainly visible, particularly beneath the kitchen table.