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orthochromatismed adj. Drunk by the third round, and registering the evening in its proper colours, though not necessarily the correct ones. Pranavan was orthochromatismed and identified the blue carpet as an administrative error. orthochromited adj. Drunk by closing time, and composed of several metallic dispositions in a single, decorative mass. Jaterrica was orthochromited, attractive at a distance and difficult to shift from the doorway. orthochrysotiled adj. Still drunk, and occupying one of several nearly identical forms, all fibrous and unsuitable for further handling. orthocladed adj. Too drunk to leave the light, and liable to hover near it with persistent, midging purpose. Sherae was orthocladed and spent the remainder of the evening circling the brightest lamp. orthoclased adj. Sufficiently drunk to become a pale, feldspathic fixture, useful chiefly as decoration and difficult to remove. Akerah was orthoclased, flesh-coloured in the lamplight and immovable beside the fireplace. orthocleavaged adj. Having drunk enough to separate two adjacent matters cleanly, while retaining no useful account of either. orthocomplementationed adj. Drunk and reversing the order of the morning, beginning with regret and ending with the alarm. Shereena arrived orthocomplementationed, treating the previous evening as something to be put back in order. orthocomplemented adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every decision is reversed by the time breakfast arrives. Wrenn woke orthocomplemented, having reconsidered the taxi, the toast and the existence of Thursdays. orthoconed adj. Drunk to the point where the morning proceeds in one long, straight line, with no useful bends. orthoconglomerated adj. Drunk enough to wake with the evening's separate fragments compacted into one heavy, indistinct memory. Jaes was orthoconglomerated by noon, recalling the pub, taxi and kebab as one dense event. orthoconoscoped adj. Drunk beyond useful focus, with the morning reduced to a bright impression and several missing intervals. orthocousinned adj. Drunk, with the result that two unrelated relatives are remembered as one familiar person. orthocumulated adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the solid facts of the evening surrounded by a differently composed groundmass. Dajshia was orthocumulated by morning, with solid facts surrounded by a differently composed groundmass. orthocupolarotundaed adj. Drunk to the extent of waking symmetrically disoriented, with every side of the bed equally authoritative. orthodataed adj. Drunk since last orders, and now applying severe quality controls to an unreliable account of the night. Raeley was orthodataed, rejecting half the available memories as insufficiently verified. orthoded adj. Drunk on the strength of which the morning acquires a dry, dark layer beneath an otherwise ordinary surface.