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precision F-striked adj. Drunk by the third round, and reserving one carefully placed obscenity for the morning's decisive moment. precision agricultured adj. Drunk by closing time, and managing the breakfast table according to invisible variations in its terrain. Alexcis woke precision agricultured and distributed crumbs according to the table's changing conditions. precision approached adj. Still drunk, and navigating the kitchen with careful horizontal and vertical guidance from the furniture. precision died adj. Too drunk to roll a single breakfast decision fairly; every option somehow lands the same way. precision medicined adj. Sufficiently drunk to tailor every remedy to the individual symptom, especially those caused by drink. Yerelin woke precision medicined and prescribed toast for herself, water for everyone else. precisioned (/pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ənd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and nevertheless certain that the morning's chronology can be reconstructed exactly. precisionismed adj. Having drunk enough to reduce the morning to clean shapes, hard edges, and no unnecessary detail. Eyup became precisionismed, describing the morning as squares, edges and one alarming staircase. precisionisted adj. Having drunk more than accuracy can survive, yet still correcting the labels on the breakfast jars. Dayson was precisionisted, correcting the jam label while wearing two different slippers. precivilisationed adj. You have drunk enough to return to the time before civilisation, when breakfast is discovered rather than prepared. precivilizationed adj. You are drunk and operating by the morning's oldest laws: shelter, water, and whatever food is nearest. Winsten was precivilizationed, guarding the blanket and communicating only through gestures. preclaimed adj. Of a drinker: claiming the nearest sofa in advance, before the morning has finished happening. Ecker arrived preclaimed and announced ownership of the sofa before removing his coat. preclamoled adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the morning's quiet for a medicinal intervention. preclampinged adj. Describing a drinker who has secured the first available surface before attempting to stand. preclassificationed adj. A drinker who has sorted the morning's objects before deciding what any of them are for. precleaned adj. A drinker so far gone that the mess is tidied before anything has technically been spilled. precleanered adj. The state of being drunk and performing a preliminary cleaning whose purpose becomes clear only later.