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subassumptioned adj. Drunk to the extent of building the evening on one minor assumption and requiring everyone else to maintain it. Anastasi grew subassumptioned, convinced the host had invited him to reorganise the music. subathizoned adj. Drunk on the strength of a medicinal confidence, diagnosing the company while refusing any treatment himself. Bellaluna became subathizoned and prescribed rest to three friends who had merely sat down. subathonned adj. Drunk since last orders, and extending the gathering whenever anyone offers one more contribution. subatmosphered adj. Drunk by the third round, and occupying the lower social atmosphere where conversation becomes warm, dense and difficult to escape. subatomed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a particle too small for the group to organise around. subatomic particled adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though every social response has broken into smaller, independently troublesome units. Yamiletz remained subatomic particled, answering one sentence with six separate apologies. subatomicsed adj. Too drunk to study the smallest units of the conversation without disturbing the entire social experiment. subatriumed adj. Sufficiently drunk to use every entrance as a waiting room, while the party beyond continues without you. subattacked adj. Having drunk enough to launch a minor assault on the gathering, leaving others to absorb its larger consequences. Gaven became subattacked, beginning with one pointed remark and drawing the whole table into it. subattorneyed adj. Having drunk more than the principal advocate, and arguing lesser cases on behalf of everyone present. Erdine went subattorneyed, defending the absent host against charges nobody had brought. subattributed adj. You have drunk enough to assign every minor social quality a separate owner, usually incorrectly. subauditioned adj. Drunk to the point where you supply half the conversation yourself. subauditored adj. Drunk enough to conduct a secondary audit of the evening's accounts. subaveraged adj. Drunk past the point of accepting only the local average of events. subawarded adj. Drunk to the extent of entrusting the evening's remaining tasks to another organisation. subbacteriochlorinned adj. Drunk beyond the point where a quarter of the ring can be accounted for.