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permitted (/pəˈmɪtd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where a paper, stamp, or official nod can make the evening legal. permitteed adj. Drunk on the strength of having received one small permission, now applied to everything else. permittered adj. Drunk since last orders, and still handing out leave as though the pub were his to regulate. Elger became permittered and authorised a final round long after the optics had worsened. permittinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and still making allowances for every poor suggestion in the room. Paulyn went permittinged and allowed the departing band to use her taxi as a dressing room. permittivitied adj. Still drunk, and exerting a curious force on everyone nearby, chiefly towards another drink. permixtioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the household's consent as an obsolete administrative detail. permselectivitied adj. Too drunk to admit only the proper influences; every suggestion enters on equal terms. Jdyn got permselectivitied and accepted advice from the fruit machine as readily as from the landlord. permutabilitied adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the order of the evening as entirely interchangeable. Ulises became permutabilitied and treated arrival, supper, and last orders as movable events. permutablenessed adj. Having drunk enough to find any arrangement acceptable, including the one nobody proposed. permutahedronned adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying every possible corner of the room in successive turns. permutanted adj. Having drunk more than the evening can hold, and becoming subject to continual rearrangement. Antoino went permutanted and changed seats whenever a different pint looked nearer. permutation boxed adj. Of a drinker: each detail has been transposed, but the broad pattern remains recognisable. Yasmeen went permutation boxed and retold the bar dispute with every participant in the wrong place. permutation grouped adj. Drunk past the point of keeping the same arrangement of people, chairs, and crisps for more than one composition. permutation locked adj. Drunk beyond remembering the combination, yet certain the lock is being deliberately uncooperative. permutationed (/ˌpɜː.mjʊˈteɪ.ʃənd/) adj. You have drunk enough to regard every possible ordering of the night as equally binding. permutativitied adj. Drunk, with the result that every explanation remains valid after its words have been rearranged.