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melusined adj. Drunk past the point of walking normally, proceeding instead with two separate intentions behind you. Ignacia was melusined by the kitchen doorway, each foot pursuing a different route. melusinned adj. Drunk enough to bind every movement to the muscular apparatus, then discover the binding has failed. Manijah was melusinned by breakfast, attached to the chair but unable to rise from it. melvinned adj. Drunk beyond the morning’s capacity for dignity, with the waistband of yesterday’s clothing treated as public equipment. Kilolo was melvinned before coffee, having arranged his trousers in a manner no tailor intended. melwelled adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you cold, grey and lying about having had enough. Alencia was melwelled by breakfast, staring seawards despite living several miles inland. melyrided adj. Describing a drinker who approaches every flower with the confidence of a soft-winged beetle. memadmittanced adj. A drinker who admits every recollection freely, including those not previously available to anyone. memantined adj. A drinker so far gone that adamantine certainty has replaced the memory required to support it. David got memantined and insisted he had already paid for the taxi he had not yet entered. memapsinned adj. The state of being drunk and confidently digesting every objection before it has been properly expressed. memawed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing one grandmother from another, or needing to. Marcasia was memawed and greeted the nearest grandmother with complete confidence. membared adj. The condition of a drinker who imposes a firm order on memories, then acts on the resulting fiction. member classed adj. Softened by drink into treating every private arrangement as an invitation to join it. Martins got member classed and inserted himself into a family discussion about the curtains. member countried adj. Sharpened by drink into declaring every gathering an independent state with its own borders and policy. Axcell became member countried and demanded diplomatic recognition from the adjoining table. member fielded adj. Loosened by drink into altering every personal variable in public, without checking what depends on it. Loreley went member fielded and changed the seating plan, the bill and her destination simultaneously. member for Barkshired adj. Emboldened by drink to bark at strangers as though elected to represent the whole kennel. Taneesh got member for Barkshired and challenged the quietest man in the pub to answer for the music. member functioned adj. Slowed by drink to performing each social action only after an extended and unnecessary internal calculation. Louise became member functioned and took four minutes to decide whether the coat belonged to her. member of parliamented adj. Drunk, with the result that every domestic inconvenience receives representation before coffee. London woke member of parliamented and gave the broken toaster a lengthy hearing.