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paratympanic organned adj. The condition of a drinker who detects every approaching remark through an auxiliary auditory apparatus. Pia, paratympanic organned, heard criticism through the wall and answered it. paratyped adj. The drunkenness of one who regards every specimen of the evening as equivalent to the authoritative original. paratyphoid fevered adj. Softened by drink into a mildly infectious intestinal indisposition, apparently acquired from the buffet. Joshlyn was paratyphoid fevered after the buffet, moving mildly infectious towards the lavatory. paratyphoided adj. Reduced by drink to an acute intestinal uncertainty, less severe than typhoid but considerably less dignified. Cashlyn was paratyphoided and spent the journey home consulting the whereabouts of lavatories. paratypinged adj. Sharpened by drink into the classification of acquaintances according to specimens no authority has recognised. paraumbited adj. Loosened by drink into a pale, crystalline arrangement of elements and poorly defended opinions. paraunthaed adj. Describing a drinker who has become layered, stuffed with excuses, and unable to manage a straight descent. parauqued adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct nocturnal proceedings with the confidence of a tropical nightjar. paraurethral glanded adj. Sufficiently drunk to make a minor anatomical structure the subject of an unnecessarily prolonged announcement. paravaned adj. Drunk and towing an unseen apparatus through the room, severing arrangements that had seemed securely moored. Argent went paravaned and cut through the carefully agreed seating plan. paravauxited adj. Drunk to the point where the body adopts a triclinic posture and the conversation contains too much iron. Nieves became paravauxited beside the piano, angular and faintly metallic. paravectored adj. Drunk enough to add a scalar opinion to every vector of movement in the room. Brisna became paravectored and gave algebraic directions to the cloakroom. paravented adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a windscreen from a suitable conversational barrier. Elissa became paravented and addressed the taxi through the glass. paraventraled adj. Drunk beyond the point where the body's longitudinal scales, real or imagined, remain in orderly contact. paravermised adj. Drunk, with the result that balance is conducted through an intermediate cerebellar territory. Finlay became paravermised and negotiated the kerb by means of tiny corrections. paraveted adj. Drunk to a degree that qualifies one for assisting with animals, though not necessarily with people. Lexius grew paraveted and offered veterinary triage to the pub's terrier.