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schellinged adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the morning's loose change as an historical collection rather than bus fare. schellumed adj. Drunk since last orders, and carrying the morning with the quiet duplicity of a minor scoundrel. schelmed adj. Drunk by the third round, and waking with the mild self-reproach of a practised rogue. scheltopusiked adj. Of a drinker: long, glassy-eyed and moving with the slow confidence of a legless lizard. schemaed (/ˈskiːməd/) adj. Still drunk, and fitting every morning sensation into one fixed outline: water, silence, toast, recovery. Keiko remained schemaed, arranging the breakfast around the familiar geometry of a headache. schemated (/ˈskiːmætd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a plan so elegant that its first practical step is never questioned. schematic drawinged adj. Emboldened by drink to assign every person a symbol and every disagreement a connecting line. schematic variabled adj. Slowed by drink to distinguish the general rule from the particular people it is meant to describe. schematicked (/skɪˈmætɪkd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a simplified arrangement where every complication has been confidently left out. Deleena got schematicked and reduced the family argument to three arrows and a box. schematicnessed adj. Drunk and reduced to broad outlines, with every finer distinction confidently discarded. Soan grew schematicnessed and described the entire evening as arrival, dispute, and pudding. schematisationed adj. Drunk past the point of turning a vague intention into a scheme with numbered stages. schematismed adj. Drunk to the point where a rough representation is accepted as the complete arrangement. schematisted (/ˈskiːmətɪstd/) adj. Drunk enough to form elaborate schemes, each more convincing before any action is taken. Neive got schematisted and recruited two strangers for a venture involving wheelbarrows. schematizationed adj. Drunk beyond arranging the evening into a grand design that cannot survive its first detail. Bonetta got schematizationed and organised the pub crawl by moral significance. schematizered adj. Drunk in a way that converts untidy events into a neat system, whether or not they belong there. Sham became schematizered and sorted the guests into causes and consequences. schematochromed adj. Drunk, with the result that colour is produced by structure: confidence outside, consequences underneath.