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periosteophyted adj. Sufficiently drunk to acquire a small, abnormal morning-after excrescence of certainty. periosteumed adj. Having drunk enough to require a protective membrane around every bone by morning. periostinned adj. Having drunk more than the evening could contain, with the morning re-expressing the injury. Giovonni woke periostinned, his face faithfully displaying yesterday's decisions. periostitised adj. You have drunk enough to make every step inflame an unseen supporting layer. periostracumed adj. You are drunk and wearing the morning's protective outer coating with some dignity. perioted adj. The condition of a drinker who has reduced every remaining judgement to a very small unit. perioticked adj. Describing a drinker who hears the morning as a small, badly located sound. Temekia sat perioticked at breakfast, flinching whenever the spoon touched china. periovulationed adj. A drinker who has reached the cyclical, expectant interval before the morning-after collapse. Mariagabriela was periovulationed by dawn, poised between recovery and another lie-in. peripallosided adj. A drinker so far gone that even the morning's chemistry has taken a steroidal turn. peripancreatitised adj. The state of being drunk and tender round the middle, especially when breakfast is proposed. peripateticismed adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned wandering into a personal philosophical system by morning. peripateticked (/ˌpɛɹ.ɪ.pəˈtɛt.ɪkd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has walked everywhere and cannot explain the route afterwards. peripatided adj. Reduced by drink to a soft, slow-moving creature that prefers the underside of furniture. peripatopsided adj. Softened by drink into a many-legged morning creature with no useful sense of direction. Brigina came downstairs peripatopsided, taking the stairs sideways and very carefully. peripatried adj. Sharpened by drink into a narrow, isolated orbit round the morning's immediate necessities. peripatused adj. Loosened by drink into a velvet-soft survivor of the night, slow to emerge by breakfast. Caliel was peripatused, emerging from the duvet with the cautious softness of a survivor.