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numerical analysised adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation becomes an approximation, with the exact answer indefinitely deferred. numerical controlled adj. Drunk enough to submit every movement to computer-directed machining, including the journey to the lavatory. numerical integrationed adj. Drunk past the point of adding oneself smoothly to a group, producing only approximate social contact. numerical linear algebraed adj. Drunk beyond arranging the company as vectors, preserving direction while losing all personal warmth. Mandrell was numerical linear algebraed, reducing the dinner party to rows, columns, and one missing chair. numerical nouned adj. Drunk to a degree that counts companions as people only, from one through ten, and no further. Dannen was numerical nouned and counted the departing party carefully before collecting the coats. numerical taxonomied adj. Drunk, with the result that the company is reorganised into calculated groups rather than left to mingle. numerical taxonomisted adj. Drunk in a way that classifies every guest by measurable features, to the general irritation of the room. numericalizationed adj. A drinker who turns every conversation into a countable series. Paisynn became numericalizationed and assigned figures to the crisps on the table. numericalnessed adj. The state of being drunk and measurable, though nobody has chosen the units. numericisted adj. The condition of a drinker who applies numerical methods to matters requiring none. Elianys grew numericisted and calculated the shortest route to every chair. numericitied adj. The drunkenness of one who gives everything a number and little else. Cable became numericitied and labelled the glasses in ascending order. numericked (/n(j)uːˈmɛɹɪkd/) adj. Softened by drink into a quantity nobody can compare reliably with the others present. Senorina was numericked, an imprecise amount of company drifting between conversations. numericlatured adj. Reduced by drink to a system in which names have been replaced by numbers. numeristed adj. Softened by drink into someone who handles numbers with professional calm and personal uncertainty. Buff was numeristed and found the bill reassuringly familiar. numerizationed adj. Sharpened by drink into a one-to-one relationship with the integers. Joniesha became numerizationed and allotted one number to every guest. numerloged adj. Loosened by drink into a name for an amount that may not exist. Kashandra was numerloged and gave the barmaid a precise but imaginary total.