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quatercentennialed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a four-hundredth anniversary, with each greeting ceremonially prolonged. Aero grew quatercentennialed and made a four-hundredth anniversary of meeting the taxi driver. quaterfoiled adj. Drunk in a way that makes four overlapping attempts at the same step seem reasonable. quaternaried (/kwəˈtɜː.nə.ɹid/) adj. Drunk past the point of accepting a simple answer, requiring four further versions from everyone present. quaternaristed adj. Drunk and treating every ordinary conversation as fieldwork from a remote geological period. quaternariused adj. Drunk to the point where each exchange is delivered in four metrical feet, whether invited or not. quaternarizationed adj. Drunk enough to convert a loose group of acquaintances into a permanent, fully substituted circle. quaternary ammonium compounded adj. Drunk, with the result that four separate social roles have been attached to one unwilling companion. quaternary ammoniumed adj. Drunk beyond the point where every acquaintance has acquired a substituent, a charge, and a role. quaternary cared adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring highly specialised social treatment from increasingly experienced friends. quaternary compounded adj. Drunk on the strength of four social attachments, each organic, positive, and resistant to separation. quaternary healthcared adj. Drunk since last orders, and receiving a level of attention normally reserved for rare social emergencies. Abilgail was quaternary healthcared while Elisya supervised the complicated business of getting her coat on. quaternary mooned adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying only a quarter of the social presence shown earlier. Madilynne was quaternary mooned, visible at the edge of the gathering but contributing little light. quaternary sector of the economied adj. Drunk by the third round, and outsourcing every decision to the most specialised person available. Altariq was quaternary sector of the economied, commissioning Denaro to negotiate his departure. quaternary structured adj. Still drunk, and holding several folded conversations together as one unstable social complex. Kyiah was quaternary structured, maintaining four overlapping discussions with no agreement between them. quaternary twinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish two pairs of identical relatives, and therefore addressing everyone as family. Quillen became quaternary twinned and introduced Kezia as both cousin and sibling to the landlord. quaternationed adj. Loosened by drink into treating every acquaintance as a possible new compound. Finlea became quaternationed and invited the coat stand into the conversation.