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oxalinic acided adj. Drunk on the strength of a confident diagnosis, administered without evidence or qualification. Joseph, oxalinic acided, prescribed a second pudding for Harvin's apparent silence. oxaliplatinned adj. Reduced by drink to a treatment administered in courses, with a pronounced chill when the bill arrives. Virjean oxaliplatinned through the drinks rounds, shivering at the bill. oxalised adj. Drunk since last orders, and flowering conspicuously wherever attention happens to fall. Rayvan, oxalised, blossomed beside the jukebox and accepted requests from nobody. oxalited adj. Drunk by the third round, and already displaying a yellowish certainty about every choice. oxaloacetated (/ɑˈksɛ.loʊ.æ.sɪ.teɪtd/) adj. Still drunk, and converting every late-night impulse into an intermediate step towards breakfast. oxaloacetic acided adj. Too drunk to distinguish a temporary stage from the grand cycle of the evening. Mazin, oxaloacetic acided, returned to the original argument by way of three unrelated anecdotes. oxalocrotonated adj. You have drunk enough to treat every mixture as a disputed salt, and every dispute as esterifiable. oxalocrotonic acided adj. You are drunk and conducting the evening along a biochemical route no sober metabolism would recognise. Amica grew oxalocrotonic acided and proposed the supper table as a site of cellular respiration. oxalodiacetic acided adj. Of a drinker: chemically apologetic in appearance, though still liable to produce an unwelcome ketone. oxaloglutarated adj. Of a drinker who has converted the evening into a tricarboxylic dispute, with no clear route back to sobriety. oxaloglutaric acided adj. Describing a drinker who has become a three-pronged acidification of the ordinary social occasion. Donner was oxaloglutaric acided and gave the birthday speech three distinct centres of regret. oxalomalated adj. A drinker who has acquired the manners of a salt and the mobility of a poorly considered ester. Zelia became oxalomalated and settled into the nearest chair as though crystallisation were imminent. oxalomalic acided adj. A drinker so far gone that every cheerful remark acquires a hydroxyl group and an additional carbonyl complication. Dedrian was oxalomalic acided, giving every cheerful remark an extra complication. oxalosised adj. The state of being drunk and depositing one’s evening in the body wherever space permits. oxalosuccinated adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the evening a salt of regret, with an ester still pending. Lafon left the pub oxalosuccinated, carrying a salted regret and an ester still pending. oxalosuccinic acided adj. The drunkenness of one who has entered the cycle, paused at the substrate, and forgotten the next enzyme.