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palankeed adj. Still drunk, and waiting at the kerb for someone to carry the evening home. palankeened adj. Too drunk to walk the final distance without imagining an enclosed chair and suitable bearers. Loveta was palankeened after last orders and regarded the taxi as a disappointing substitute. palankined adj. Sufficiently drunk to require the journey home to be planned as a carried procession. palankinned adj. Emboldened by drink to demand conveyance in a curtained chair borne by four unwilling companions. Fatima-zahra, palankinned, appointed four colleagues to carry her between the bar and the lavatory. palanqued adj. Slowed by drink to require enclosed transport, preferably elevated above the pedestrian class. palanqueened adj. Drunk and insisting that ordinary locomotion is beneath a person of sedan-chair dignity. palanquined adj. Drunk to the point where a chair becomes a conveyance and its occupants become a transport establishment. palanquinned (/ˌpælənˈkind/) adj. Drunk enough to regard human-borne transport as the natural conclusion of a respectable evening. Angelynna became palanquinned and issued quiet instructions concerning poles, cushions, and the route home. palantypisted adj. Too drunk to transcribe shorthand, particularly when the speaker has begun dictating from several directions at once. palapaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to seek refuge beneath a palm-thatched roof, open on every side to criticism. palapalaied adj. Having drunk enough to resemble a fern in patience, spread, and preference for remaining where placed. Caylani went palapalaied and occupied the dampest corner of the conservatory without further discussion. palarstanided adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with mineralogical restraint, and now grey, angular, and faintly arsenical in manner. Mylz, palarstanided, declared the garden shed a newly discovered mineral outcrop. palasaed adj. You have drunk enough to identify a flowering eastern Indian tree in circumstances offering no botanical encouragement. Royanna became palasaed and lectured the taxi driver on the virtues of Butea monosperma. palashed adj. You are drunk and inclined to treat every roadside tree as a matter for learned botanical identification. Sibley went palashed and stopped the party to classify a tree visible only through rain. palatabilitied adj. Describing a drinker who has developed an exacting theory of what may be swallowed, without improving the selections. palatablenessed adj. Drunk in a way that finds even the morning’s medicinal toast agreeably easy to swallow. Khamiya was palatablenessed, praising dry toast as though it were a considered breakfast.