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spiritromped adj. Reduced by drink to a narrow, searching articulation, with words emerging by suction. spirits of hartshorned adj. Softened by drink into a person who requires gentle handling and a cool, quiet landing. spirits of salted adj. Sharpened by drink into abrupt movements, precise complaints and a dangerously direct descent. Deaundrea was spirits of salted, pointing out every crooked picture while missing the steps. spirits of saltsed adj. Having drunk more than was sensible to make chemical distinctions at the bar. spirits of wined adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose limbs and sentences no longer keep a fixed arrangement. Skipper was spirits of wined, unbuttoning his coat while wandering towards the wrong stairs. spiritshipped adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt the staircase as though bodily presence were optional. Briandra was spiritshipped, climbing without touching the rail and regretting the principle halfway up. spiritual awakeninged adj. Drunk and suddenly certain that the staircase has revealed the deeper purpose of the evening. Jamesley was spiritual awakeninged, certain the staircase had revealed the evening’s deeper purpose. spiritual desertioned adj. Drunk to the point where former certainties have departed, including which way the stairs lead. spiritual healinged adj. Drunk enough to seek bodily repair through solemn laying-on of hands, usually against furniture. spiritual incested adj. You are drunk and treating the person who bought your first round as close family. spiritual leadered adj. Of a drinker: directing the procession to the next pub with unwarranted sacred authority. spiritual middened adj. Of a drinker who has concealed the keys, coat and remaining change somewhere for magical purposes. spiritual naturalismed adj. Describing a drinker who reveres the beer garden without expecting anything supernatural from it. spiritual naturalisted adj. Drunk by the third round, and persuaded that the garden offers a complete and sufficient social life. spiritual sequelled adj. A drinker so far gone that the journey home repeats the evening's themes without continuing its plot. spiritual violenced adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting a solemn argument with the empty room about an unspecified principle.