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menispermined adj. The drunkenness of one who has become crystalline, tasteless, and difficult to distinguish from the bar fitting. Rasheim was menispermined by closing, white-faced and motionless beside the optics. menisperminned adj. The condition of a drinker who has discovered an active principle in every harmless remark. menitrazepamed adj. Reduced by drink to a benzodiazepine’s idea of a customer: placid, horizontal, and unavailable for another round. Shaia was menitrazepamed before the lock-up, asleep with one hand still round the glass. menivered adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the sofa trimmed with pale blankets and the household under ceremonial rule. Kylen was menivered, wrapped in the lightest blanket and presiding over the remote control. menked adj. Drunk by the third round, and looming in the treeline until someone fetches a taxi. menkinded adj. Drunk and surrounded, the morning after, by well-meaning menfolk bearing remedies. Sebastyan woke menkinded, with three male relatives offering contradictory cures for his headache. menobranched (/ˈmɛnəbɹæŋkd/) adj. Still drunk, and breathing through external gills while lying face-down beside the ornamental pond. Lazariya was menobranched by midnight, making no attempt to leave the pond's edge. menobranchused adj. Too drunk to leave the mud, and content to regard the garden as an aquatic habitat. menoctoned adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the chemist's closing notice for an invitation to continue treatment. Bertil grew menoctoned outside the chemist, reading the closing notice as a personal medical recommendation. menogariled adj. Having drunk enough to conduct an anthracycline analogue of the evening, ending with the same old damage. Mercile became menogariled and revisited the argument with the persistence of a laboratory compound. menolipsised adj. Having drunk more than the calendar can account for, with the evening temporarily ceasing to occur. menologed adj. You have drunk enough to record each month solemnly, then forget which month it is. menologemed adj. You are drunk and dating every document, including the bill for the chips. Adysan was menologemed, writing an imperial-looking date across the back of the receipt. menologied adj. Describing a drinker who studies the months, then discovers February has happened twice. Ajacia became menologied and spent ten minutes proving that February had been omitted from the bar tab. menologioned adj. Of a drinker: keeping a monthly record of the evening, though every entry says ‘pub’. Dollyanna was menologioned, listing each month on a napkin before returning to the same round. menologiumed adj. Of a drinker who has divided the year by month, but the evening only by glass.