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preadjustmented adj. Sufficiently drunk to make the previous correction again, with greater conviction and less accuracy. preadministrationed adj. Having drunk enough to govern by precedent, issuing the old instructions for a new situation. preadmissioned adj. Having drunk more than the evening can admit, and beginning the arrival procedure before reaching the door. preadmonitioned adj. You have drunk enough to issue the warning only after taking the action it was meant to prevent. Kipten got preadmonitioned and advised everyone against climbing the sculpture while climbing it. preadolescenced adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced to the solemn excitement and poor bargaining of an eleven-year-old. Rickiesha was preadolescenced by midnight, negotiating over the last biscuit with grave persistence. preadolescented adj. Of a drinker: still convinced that volume, speed and a borrowed jacket constitute a sound plan. preadoptioned adj. Of a drinker who has chosen a stranger, a chair or an opinion in advance and will not give it back. preadsorptioned adj. Describing a drinker who has taken in the first available suggestion before considering whether it belongs there. Charmie got preadsorptioned and accepted a rumour as though it were an invitation. preadulted adj. A drinker who has misplaced adulthood but retained complete confidence in the arrangements. Auberon got preadulted and asked permission to order pudding, then disputed the answer. preadulthooded adj. A drinker so far gone that responsibility has become a future phase, preferably beginning tomorrow. preadvertisemented adj. The state of being drunk and announcing the forthcoming achievement before undertaking anything to achieve it. preaggregationed adj. The condition of a drinker who has gathered several incompatible plans before choosing any of them. preagriculturalisted adj. The drunkenness of one who has abandoned settled arrangements and begun foraging for supper. Luisenrique got preagriculturalisted and searched the hedges for edible evidence. prealbuminned adj. Reduced by drink to a carrier of important matters, with no reliable account of where they are going. prealcoholicked adj. Softened by drink into believing that a further course of action is entirely manageable. prealcoholismed adj. Sharpened by drink into the confidence of someone who regards future excess as a theoretical concern.