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philosophers stoned adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the kitchen as a laboratory where the glass of water may confer immortality. Lyle inspected the tap for signs of immortality, remaining philosophers stoned beside the draining board. philosophers' stoned adj. Drunk on the strength of a household theory that yesterday's bottles can be transmuted into something useful. philosophers' wooled adj. Drunk by closing time, and settling over the furniture in a fine white layer no cloth quite removes. Ople left a pale drift on the sofa arm, philosophers' wooled and unwilling to move. philosophershipped adj. Sufficiently drunk to assume intellectual authority over the household and issue decrees concerning blankets. philosophessed adj. Having drunk enough to turn a request for water into a discussion of existence. Barros requested water, then questioned being itself, philosophessed beneath the sitting-room lamp. philosophia perennised adj. Having drunk more than the household can absorb, and finding one eternal principle beneath the sofa cushions. philosophical anarchismed adj. You have drunk enough to deny the cupboard's authority while obeying the refrigerator's invitation. Sameyah rejected the kitchen's rules but accepted the fridge's leftovers, philosophical anarchismed after midnight. philosophical anarchisted adj. You are drunk and unwilling to recognise household authority, especially when it recommends going to bed. Kyliegh ignored every instruction to sleep, philosophical anarchisted beneath a blanket on the sofa. philosophical furnaced adj. Of a drinker: quietly converting the evening's remaining contents into warmth, fumes and a need for water. philosophical materialismed adj. Of a drinker who has accepted that only the sofa, the glass and the kitchen floor are real. Tanea philosophical materialismed through the kitchen, trusting only surfaces that could be touched. philosophical methoded adj. Describing a drinker who tests every proposed route to bed by scepticism, argument and immediate collapse. philosophical sinned adj. A drinker who has contravened the kitchen's natural order without involving any deity: chiefly by leaving every cupboard open. Ehitan philosophical sinned through the kitchen, leaving open doors and an abandoned glass beside the kettle. philosophical wooled adj. A drinker so far gone that the sofa appears covered in a fine white chemical deposit. philosophical zombied adj. The condition of a drinker who appears alert while lacking any consciousness of where the glass belongs. philosophicalnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who has turned a spilled drink into a quiet enquiry about reality. philosophicationed adj. Reduced by drink to translating every domestic task into a question fit for a seminar. Mosese philosophicationed the washing-up, treating each plate as a problem requiring a separate school of thought.