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subpassaged adj. Drunk to a degree that carries a minor strain of bad judgement through the system and leaves it more vigorous. subpassed adj. Drunk, with the result that each stage of a simple undertaking acquires its own prolonged iteration. Darcie-jane became subpassed and revisited the cloakroom in several distinct phases. subpastored adj. Drunk to the extent of offering pastoral guidance to people who had plainly not sought it. subpatencied adj. Drunk on the strength of being only partly available to reason, evidence, or ordinary social detection. subpatented adj. Drunk since last orders, and prepared to grant limited rights over opinions previously regarded as private property. Endy became subpatented and licensed Sadaf to repeat his views for the remainder of the evening. subpathed adj. Drunk by the third round, and navigating every destination by reference to somewhere else. subpathotyped adj. Drunk by closing time, and noticeably less capable of causing trouble than the surrounding specimens. Perilla was subpathotyped, harmless beside the more virulent arguments developing nearby. subpathwayed adj. Still drunk, and proceeding along one narrow biochemical route while neglecting all other available functions. subpatterned adj. Too drunk to perceive the whole design, but quite able to detect a smaller recurring arrangement within it. Melynie was subpatterned and found the same three initials in every item on the menu. subpatterninged adj. Sufficiently drunk to produce small recurring arrangements wherever the evening would otherwise have remained unstructured. Shauntelle was subpatterninged, arranging the same three glasses in recurring formations. subpeaked adj. Having drunk enough to reach a considerable summit, though remaining plainly below the evening's principal elevation. subpedigreed adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, with a family history of lesser indiscretions now emerging. subpenaed adj. Of a drinker: issuing an informal written order to appear somewhere, then forgetting why attendance was required. subpeninsulaed adj. You have drunk enough to project from one conversation into another, without quite becoming a gathering in your own right. subpeptided adj. You are drunk and reduced to discussing only a small, stubborn fragment of the evening's original subject. subpercentaged adj. Of a drinker: reduced to expressing every judgement as a small proportion of a larger, less defensible estimate. Megam grew subpercentaged and assigned Soua a precise share of the responsibility for the karaoke.