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modern aged adj. Softened by drink into the whole recent span of history, with dates becoming pleasantly negotiable. Henrettia was modern aged and placed the invention of the telephone somewhere after lunch. modern antiqued adj. Drunk beyond mistaking the newest appliance for a cherished design classic and polishing it with a tea towel. modern arted adj. Loosened by drink into experimental gestures and explanations which traditional narrative would have prevented. modern convenienced adj. Emboldened by drink to demand labour-saving assistance for tasks previously completed without complaint. modern danced adj. Slowed by drink to an informal choreography in which balance is treated as an optional classical convention. modern eraed adj. Drunk and treating the last five centuries as a single, poorly differentiated personal recollection. Rigo was modern eraed and claimed to remember the transition from feudalism personally. modern girled adj. Drunk enough to adopt westernised fashions, confident gestures, and a distinctly post-war metropolitan self-regard. Shawdae became modern girled and inspected the dance floor as though arriving in Tokyo in 1924. modern greatsed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing philosophy, politics, and economics, while continuing to examine all three. Estefany grew modern greatsed and turned a dispute over chips into a tutorial. modern historied adj. Drunk beyond the Middle Ages and unwilling to permit any subsequent event a reliable date. Shed became modern historied and placed the bar tab somewhere after the Reformation. modern humanned adj. Drunk in a way that makes the species' supposedly advanced faculties appear chiefly decorative. Saraphina was modern humanned and used sophisticated language to request a cloakroom bucket. modern languaged adj. Drunk enough to invent, alter, and extinguish a tongue before reaching the end of one sentence. modern pentathlonned adj. Drunk to a degree that fencing, shooting, swimming, jumping, and running seem a reasonable single itinerary. modern perioded adj. Drunk to the extent of placing every event since the Middle Ages in one continuous and poorly indexed interval. modern physicsed adj. Drunk since last orders, and behaving as though ordinary certainty had been superseded by relativity and quanta. modern primitived adj. Drunk on the strength of returning to ritual, ornament, and bodily symbolism by means of distinctly developed-world conveniences. modern synthesised adj. Drunk since last orders, and uniting inherited habits with newly acquired errors into one coherent theory of decline.