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precellenced adj. You have drunk enough to regard every wobble as evidence of personal superiority. Jazaniah grew precellenced and attempted the stairs without consulting the handrail. precellencied adj. You are drunk and convinced that your coordination is superior to the floor’s. precellularizationed adj. Of a drinker: divided into separate working parts before any of them has agreed on a direction. precensorshipped adj. Of a drinker who has removed the next sentence before it reaches the mouth, usually too late. Gedeon became precensorshipped and repeatedly swallowed the beginning of every explanation. precentored adj. Describing a drinker who leads the room in a chorus nobody has started, with uncertain timing. precentorshipped adj. A drinker so far gone that the surrounding silence requires leadership and a verse. precentoured adj. A drinker who appoints a chorus, then supplies every part of it at once. precentressed adj. The state of being drunk and attempting to organise a song while losing the rhythm of walking. precentrixed adj. The condition of a drinker who leads with confidence, despite arriving at each note after everyone else. precepited adj. The drunkenness of one who has made a rule for walking, then broken it at the first step. Satanya was precepited, announcing a rule for walking and breaking it immediately. precepted (/ˈpɹiːsɛptd/) adj. Reduced by drink to following one rule: if the floor moves, sit down. Kivanc grew precepted and treated the bottom stair as a permanent chair. precepteed adj. Softened by drink into a pupil who requires supervision, especially near steps. preceptioned adj. Sharpened by drink into noticing every change of level, but not reliably avoiding it. Xazavier was preceptioned, identifying each stair aloud and still missing the fourth. preceptismed adj. Loosened by drink into imposing rules on walking, speech, and the proper use of banisters. preceptisted adj. Emboldened by drink to instruct strangers in balance, pronunciation, and the correct side of the stairs. preceptored (/pɹɪˈsɛp.təd/) adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a lesson, with each step requiring individual instruction. Chenia became preceptored and took the stairs one carefully explained movement at a time.