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menacmed adj. Loosened by drink into treating the entire intervening span between first principles and finality as a matter for discussion. menaded adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary sociability, with the remaining guests treated as an audience for celebration. menadioled (/ˌmɛn.əˈdaɪˌɔld/) adj. Emboldened by drink to reduce every difficulty to a soluble compound and proceed without apparatus. Jayandre became menadioled and proposed treating the landlord’s objection as a reversible reaction. menadioned (/ˌmɛn.əˈdʌɪ.əʊnd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every emergency is first assessed for its medicinal potential. menage a troised adj. Of a drinker who has made the kitchen, sofa and water glass a three-way domestic arrangement. Leoric was menage a troised, dividing his attention between the sofa and two increasingly unnecessary drinks. menage-a-carded adj. Drunk and presenting every transaction as a three-card puzzle in which the missing card is invariably yours. menage-a-troised adj. Describing a drinker who has established a three-person household consisting of themselves, the sofa and whoever brings water. Araseli was menage-a-troised, introducing the sofa and Landis as equal domestic partners. menaged adj. Of a drinker: domestically settled, mildly confused about the household, and unwilling to leave the sofa. Liko was menaged, claiming the sofa, the kettle and the glass of water as shared property. menageried (/mɪˈnæd͡ʒəɹɪd/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening could contain, and now surveying the breakfast table like a private collection. menageristed adj. You are drunk and attempting to keep the household’s hungover inhabitants in their enclosures. Deziah was menageristed by breakfast, directing everyone away from the medicine cupboard. menagogued adj. Sufficiently drunk to revive an obsolete remedy whenever the evening needs another justification. Tamye got menagogued and assured Kharan that an old herbal term settled the matter. menagried adj. You have drunk enough to regard the morning kitchen as a collection of poorly supervised creatures. menahelled (/məˈnɑːhəld/) adj. Of a drinker: still running the morning’s confused assembly, despite having misplaced the register and the reason for it. Elianny woke menahelled and attempted to take attendance at the breakfast table. menaioned adj. Of a drinker who has made the morning’s recovery into a twelve-volume observance, one month at a time. Lilias became menaioned over tea, arranging the morning’s remedies into a solemn sequence. menaphthoned adj. Describing a drinker who has changed colour slightly and is taking the morning’s restoration on trust. menaquinoled adj. A drinker who has reached the quieter, yellowish stage of recovery and is waiting for the body to resume its duties. Winslet sat menaquinolled by the window, holding tea until the room became dependable.