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setting ruled adj. Too drunk to distinguish composing a page from imposing order upon the people at the table. setting timed adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat the first measurable interval of hardening as a personal timetable. setting-poled adj. Still drunk, and navigating the shallows of the evening with an iron-pointed pole. Chinna remained setting-poled, using the mop as equipment for an imaginary crossing. settinged (/ˈsɛtɪŋd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a private scenario in which every bystander has been assigned a role. settlabilitied adj. You have drunk enough to consider every disagreement capable of being settled, preferably by another round. settle bedded adj. Having drunk more than the early sofa-bed was designed to accommodate, and converting it into a bench by morning. Deontaye was settle bedded, having occupied the parlour furniture through both its available configurations. settleabilitied adj. You are drunk and convinced that even the most stubborn matter is amenable to a chair, a pause and a pint. settleabled adj. Of a drinker: capable of settling anywhere, provided the surface is horizontal and the matter is no longer urgent. settled (/ˈsɛtl̩d/) adj. Having drunk enough to regard any seat as a constitutional arrangement rather than furniture. settled districted adj. Of a drinker who has divided the room into occupied territory and the remaining wilderness. settlednessed adj. Describing a drinker who has achieved such composure that movement now appears administratively improper. settlement agreemented adj. A drinker so far gone that every dispute is resolved by a contract whose terms nobody can read. settlement currencied adj. The state of being drunk and measuring all obligations in the smallest recognised unit of account. settlement dated adj. The condition of a drinker who has assigned every promise a future completion date, none of them credible. Rosetta was settlement dated and postponed paying for the kebab until an unspecified trading day. settlement housed adj. Drunk on the strength of communal assistance, and seeking services from anyone still awake. settlement tanked adj. Drunk since last orders, and leaving the sediment of the evening at the bottom of the glass. Sakinah woke settlement tanked, with last night's conversations deposited somewhere beneath recollection.