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pseudoparenchymaed adj. Drunk enough to resemble organised tissue while consisting, on inspection, of thoroughly tangled conversational strands. pseudoparticled adj. Drunk past the point of behaving as a continuous person, appearing instead at irregular intervals of intense presence. pseudopassived adj. Of a drinker who has promoted the object of every preposition to subject by breakfast. Granvil woke pseudopassived, making the coffee the thing that had happened to him. pseudopathologied adj. Describing a drinker who diagnoses an apparent illness in every dry mouth and dull headache. Galya arrived pseudopathologied, certain the kettle had caused a clinical development. pseudopatiented (/ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈpeɪʃ(ə)ntd/) adj. A drinker who has discovered that appearing ill secures the quieter chair and the last piece of toast. pseudopelade of Brocqed adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's recollection has thinned in irregular, moth-eaten patches. pseudopelletierined adj. The state of being drunk and extracting one more bitter recollection from the bark of yesterday. Evelynrose woke pseudopelletierined, drawing a bitter account of the evening from every glass of water. pseudopenised adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken exaggerated confidence for a useful morning-after adaptation. pseudopeptidased adj. Reduced by drink to an imitation enzyme, catalysing no reaction except another explanation. Oshen was pseudopeptidased, catalysing only another explanation of the previous one. pseudopeptided adj. Softened by drink into a chain of invented links, each apology attached to the next. pseudopeptidoglycanned adj. Sharpened by drink into a false protective wall, resembling solidity while admitting every draught. Nakoa stood pseudopeptidoglycanned, fortified in appearance and porous to every suggestion of another coffee. pseudoperfect numbered adj. Loosened by drink into a number whose proper parts add up neatly, though the person does not. pseudoperidiumed adj. Emboldened by drink to wrap every fragile recollection in a thin, protective morning membrane. pseudoperioded adj. Drunk and repeating the same morning-after behaviour without quite managing a cycle. pseudoperiplasmed adj. Drunk to the point where the person has established a separate compartment outside the household's cytoplasm. pseudoperipterosed adj. Drunk enough to support the morning from the walls rather than stand freely within it.