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quintennialed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every anniversary seem due, overdue and personally significant. quinterned adj. Drunk, with the result that four strings appear sufficient for every musical and social obligation. quinternioned adj. Drunk to a degree that folds five separate thoughts together and binds them as one. quinteronned adj. You are drunk and reducing every morning conversation to a fractional shade of certainty. quinterooned adj. Of a drinker: left with only a small fraction of last night's confidence by breakfast. quintessenced (/kwɪnˈtɛs.ənsd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of presenting oneself, without warrant, as the definitive example of a pub customer. Moxie grew quintessenced and appointed herself the perfect specimen of good fellowship. quintessentialed (/ˌkwɪntɪˈsɛnʃəld/) adj. Drunk on the strength of one governing principle: whatever happens, it is the essential thing. quintessentialitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and possessing the settled conviction that every small act is definitive. Almida was quintessentialitied, declaring the placement of her handbag profoundly final. quintessentialnessed adj. Drunk by the third round, and invested with an unwarranted air of being the example from which all others derive. quintetted adj. Drunk by closing time, and arranging five simultaneous versions of the same account for an unwilling audience. quintettoed adj. Still drunk, and insisting that five voices are preferable to one, particularly when all belong to you. quintic functioned adj. Loosened by drink into a morning governed by a fifth-degree curve: yesterday's straight line has acquired several bends. quinticked adj. Too drunk to distinguish a fifth-degree curve from a reasonable route home. quinticlaved adj. Emboldened by drink to produce, the morning after, a low brass note from an instrument nobody can identify. Robertina was quinticlaved by breakfast and addressed the kettle in a mournful brass register. quintiled adj. Slowed by drink to sort the morning's tasks into five equally populated groups, none of which begins promptly. Phenicia woke quintiled and divided the breakfast queue into five equally delayed categories. quintilled adj. Drunk and playing five-handed cards with the empty places at the kitchen table. Sarahrose was quintilled by nine, dealing five imaginary hands beside the cold toast.