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protoimogolited adj. The drunkenness of one who precedes a more complete collapse with a distinctly unfinished wobble. protoindustrializationed adj. Loosened by drink into an early domestic economy, where breakfast is made slowly and sold to nobody. Brexton woke protoindustrializationed, organising cottage production of toast from the sofa. protointronned adj. Reduced by drink to a preliminary passage through which every sentence must awkwardly develop. protoiodided adj. Softened by drink into the least committed possible arrangement of limbs and syllables. Farhaad was protoiodided, using the banister with the fewest available movements. protoisoerubosided adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow, hazardous awareness of corners, edges and the final step. protokaryotyped adj. Loosened by drink into an ancestral arrangement in which the limbs no longer keep their usual order. protokyloled adj. Emboldened by drink to expand the chest, ignore the handrail and challenge the staircase directly. Nargis went protokyloled and announced that the stairs were not especially steep. protolanged adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of an ancient language being reconstructed one syllable at a time. protolanguaged adj. Having drunk enough to confidently reconstruct the conversation's lost common ancestor. protolexiconned adj. Drunk and reduced to an original vocabulary of pointing, nodding and one dependable word. protoliberaled adj. Drunk to the point where every restraint is regarded as an outdated establishment. Carita was protoliberaled and declined the lift on grounds of personal independence. protolichesterinic acided adj. Drunk enough to cling quietly to the wall, preserving a complicated surface of uncertain intention. Saanika was protolichesterinic acided, attached to the corridor and chemically unpersuasive. protolimonoided adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary coordination, but still recognisably the precursor to a person descending stairs. protolinguisticsed adj. Drunk beyond the point where speech can be understood without reconstructing its hypothetical ancestry. protolipided adj. Loosened by drink into moving between conversations without becoming properly attached to any. protolithed (/ˈpɹoʊ.təˌlɪθd/) adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the body as the original material from which a more stable formation might emerge. Gevork was protolithed at the foot of the stairs, awaiting metamorphosis into something upright.