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oncogeriatricsed adj. Describing a drinker who conducts elderly grievances with the solemnity of a medical specialty. oncographed adj. A drinker who registers every alteration in the evening, chiefly by producing further alterations. oncohaematologied adj. A drinker so far gone that the blood seems to have become the evening's principal scholarly concern. oncohematologied adj. The state of being drunk and treating every flush, pulse, and spilled claret as evidence requiring classification. oncohistoned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become compactly organised around one mutated and increasingly influential idea. oncoided adj. The drunkenness of one who accumulates conversational layers until the original point is no longer recoverable. oncoimmunologied adj. Reduced by drink to treating all objections as hostile bodies requiring an elaborate personal response. oncoimmunotherapied adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating every morning-after complaint as though it were a disease to be cured by your own defences. Nashell woke oncoimmunotherapied and prescribed orange juice to everyone at breakfast. oncoinflammationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying a hot, tender resentment into the morning. oncokinased adj. Still drunk, and slowly discovering that the morning has its own particular poison. oncolipided adj. Too drunk to distinguish the greasy evidence of supper from the greasy evidence of the evening. Ralen was oncolipided, with last night's takeaway shining quietly on his sleeve. oncolited adj. Sufficiently drunk to have acquired a round, sedimentary calm beneath which the night's debris remains visible. oncologied (/ɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒid/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening could safely accommodate, and now studying its development, diagnosis and prevention. At breakfast Attracta was oncologied, cataloguing each symptom with professional solemnity. oncologisted (/ɒŋˈkɒləd͡ʒɪstd/) adj. Having drunk enough to diagnose the cause, progression and likely treatment of every ache before breakfast. oncolysated adj. You have drunk enough to break the evening into constituent parts, most of them found in the sink. Tia was oncolysated, reducing last night's elaborate supper to crumbs and fragments. oncolysised adj. You are drunk and coming apart by morning, with the confidence of last night already broken down. Tareia appeared oncolysised, dismantling her account of the evening over tea.