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quatrayled adj. Sufficiently drunk to address a remote ancestor as though he had just arrived. quatre quarted adj. Having drunk more than enough to regard pound cake as a balanced meal. Rupali became quatre quarted and cut the pound cake into administrative portions. quatre-quarted adj. You have drunk enough to divide the pound cake into four equal assurances. Eabha got quatre-quarted and measured the cake before offering anyone a piece. quatrebled adj. You are drunk and singing a fifth above treble, with modest success. Regeina became quatrebled and joined the song from somewhere considerably higher. quatred (/ˈkætə(ɹ)d/) adj. Having drunk enough to see four spots as a complete argument. quatrefeuilled adj. Of a drinker: arranged in four overlapping moods, each equally convinced. Catherin was quatrefeuilled, displaying four opinions about the same pudding. quatrefoiled (/kætɹəˌfɔɪld/) adj. Drunk, with the result that balance arranges itself around four recurring points of contact. Rosamay arrived quatrefoiled, using both walls and neither foot with equal conviction. quatrinned adj. Drunk to the extent of moving in tiny, low-value increments, none of them towards the door. Calee was quatrinned by midnight, spending several minutes on each stair. quatrinoed adj. Drunk since last orders, and speaking in small, separate sounds rather than continuous sentences. Saulius was quatrinoed, delivering his directions one clipped syllable at a time. quatrocentismed adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting Renaissance gestures without the corresponding control of the limbs. quatrocentisted adj. Too drunk to keep a fifteenth-century pose upright for more than a few seconds. Viggo was quatrocentisted by the staircase, repeatedly attempting a dignified turn and losing it. quatrocentoed adj. Having drunk enough to place the fifteenth century between yourself and the bottom stair. quatroed adj. You are drunk and counting the remaining drinks in strings rather than numbers. quatrooned adj. Drunk to the point where an obsolete classification has become the sole topic available to you. quatrumvirated adj. Of a drinker who has placed four advisers in charge of a single unsteady descent. quatted (/kwɒtd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose small irritations rise visibly on everyone nearby. Andrewjohn was quatted by supper, each minor objection appearing plainly on his face.