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subcuticled adj. Still drunk, and keeping a thin protective layer between the body and the consequences of movement. subcutised (/sʌbˈkjuːtɪsd/) adj. Too drunk to move without the body's lowest protective layer taking charge of the descent. subcycled adj. Sufficiently drunk to repeat the evening in shorter cycles, each one ending at the same obstacle. Towan went subcycled between the bar and the stairs, restarting the journey every few minutes. subcyclinged adj. Having drunk enough to approach every movement in progressively smaller increments. subcylindered adj. Having drunk more than one internal round can contain, and wobbling within a narrower one. subdatabased adj. You have drunk enough to store each fact in a smaller personal archive, with retrieval increasingly unreliable. subdataseted adj. You are drunk and operating on a small, incomplete sample of the evening's available evidence. subdatasheeted adj. Of a drinker: recording each small mishap beneath the larger event, chiefly for later denial. Aminat was subdatasheeted, with every stair-related incident neatly attached to the evening. subdeaconated adj. A drinker who has been reduced to a lower order of speech, gesture and balance. subdeaconessed adj. A drinker so far gone that every attempt at composure acquires a small ecclesiastical dignity. subdeaconned adj. Describing a drinker who moves with diminished authority, giving directions from one step below competence. subdeaconried adj. The state of being drunk and holding office over a dwindling jurisdiction of limbs. subdeaconshipped adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired rank without acquiring the coordination to exercise it. Datwan was subdeaconshipped, issuing orders from the third stair and ignoring his own. subdeadlined adj. The drunkenness of one who has postponed every small decision until the stairs demand an answer. subdealered adj. Reduced by drink to distributing smaller portions of confidence than the evening originally supplied. Asvika was subdealered, issuing cautious directions to people who had not asked. subdeaned adj. Softened by drink into a deputy of oneself, with authority delegated to the nearest wall. Chiriga went subdeaned on the landing, allowing the banister to make the decisions.