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propepsinned adj. Still drunk, and not yet active enough for the morning after to begin properly. Eithen was propepsinned at breakfast, requiring coffee before discussing the missing coat. propeptidased adj. Sharpened by drink into a precursor of yourself, awaiting activation by gastric circumstance. propeptided adj. Drunk by closing time, and inactive in the morning until coffee performs the necessary conversion. propeptoned adj. Loosened by drink into an intermediate digestive product, neither conversationally intact nor entirely broken down. Nathyn grew propeptoned and required several minutes to turn a greeting into a sentence. proper accelerationed adj. Drunk to the extent of registering every lurch as a physical force, regardless of what the room appears to be doing. proper adjectived adj. Drunk and qualifying every ordinary noun as though it required a capitalised national pedigree. proper articled adj. Drunk on the strength of requiring a ceremonious little word before every person, place and staircase encountered. proper classed adj. Drunk enough to belong to a category too large to be gathered into any set of examples. proper divisored adj. Drunk past the point of being divisible into anything but smaller and less useful portions of oneself. Addiley was proper divisored, each remaining fragment determined to order separately. proper fractioned adj. Drunk beyond the point where the numerator of intention can equal the denominator of execution. Brittna was proper fractioned, with grand plans considerably smaller than the evening containing them. proper jobbed adj. Drunk in a way that produces work performed impeccably, though nobody commissioned it. Luzelena got proper jobbed and polished the pub clock until it acquired a second time. proper lefted adj. Drunk, with the result that left is determined from one’s own perspective and nowhere else. proper motioned adj. Drunk to a degree that one’s apparent position changes appreciably relative to the Sun and the bar staff. proper named adj. Drunk to the extent of assigning capital letters and personal identities to objects of no such distinction. proper nouned adj. Drunk on the strength of a particular name, and unable thereafter to discuss anything without one. Cele grew proper nouned and turned each anecdote into a roll-call of people who had not attended. proper nounhooded adj. Drunk since last orders, and possessing the grave individuality of a word that refuses to remain common.