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subchantered adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a deputy leading a hymn nobody has yet located. Xi became subchantered and prolonged the toast as though directing cathedral music. subchaptered adj. Drunk and dividing every account into lesser sections, complete with unnecessary headings. subcharactered adj. Drunk to the point where every person present has been assigned a lesser role in an unfolding fiction. subcharacteristicked adj. Drunk enough to explain a person by listing the small properties which, collectively, explain nothing. Chong became subcharacteristicked and classified the guests by increasingly obscure habits. subcharacterizationed adj. Drunk past the point of describing people directly, and instead assigning them a succession of minor traits. subcharted adj. Drunk beyond the principal account, and producing a secondary diagram of matters nobody was tracking. subchartered adj. Drunk in a way that places the remaining capacity of the evening under informal commercial lease. subchasered adj. Drunk, with the result that an ordinary pursuit is conducted with the solemnity of naval operations. Antheny became subchasered and pursued a missing pint across the pub's tables. subchefed adj. Drunk to a degree that permits the management of a kitchen without the authority to enter it. Maighread became subchefed and issued corrections from beside the bread basket. subchiefed adj. Drunk to the extent of exercising a lesser command over people who have not acknowledged any command at all. subchieftained adj. Drunk on the strength of a modest authority, magnified until it governs the entire table. subchilded adj. Drunk since last orders, and behaving as though each decision were the subordinate branch of a much younger mind. subchlorided adj. Drunk by the third round, and chemically reduced to a milder, less concentrated version of oneself. subchlorinned adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by one quarter in the ring of ordinary social restraint. subchoiced adj. Softened by drink into treating every minor preference as a negotiable option by breakfast. subchorded adj. Sharpened by drink into hearing a smaller harmony inside every kettle, radiator and headache. Mantaj arrived subchorded, identifying the fridge's undertone before speaking to anyone.