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symbol pushinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and reducing every practical question to a sequence of detached marks. symbol tabled adj. Still drunk, and cataloguing everyone present according to names, declarations, and where they first appeared. Vitula remained symbol tabled, assigning each guest a type and a location in the conversation. symbolatried adj. Too drunk to distinguish an emblem from the authority it purports to represent. Akeila got symbolatried and apologised to the pub sign for the evening's poor symbolism. symboled adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a sign pointing unambiguously towards the nearest exit. symbolgramed adj. Sufficiently drunk to invent a personal emblem and defend its aspirations before an uninterested audience. symbolic constanted adj. Having drunk enough to substitute a fixed value for every person, place, and unresolved question. Luisenrique went symbolic constanted and assigned the same numerical value to every member of the wedding party. symbolic expressioned adj. Of a drinker: reduced to lists and signs, with even the apology arranged in nested notation. symbolic languaged adj. Of a drinker who has replaced speech with signs, gestures, and an increasingly ambitious private alphabet. symbolic linked adj. Describing a drinker who reaches for one person but arrives, by shortcut, at somebody entirely different. Nalina became symbolic linked and addressed every question about the landlord to the coat stand. symbolic logicked adj. A drinker who conducts deductions in formal notation, and regards ordinary speech as an evidential weakness. symbolic speeched adj. A drinker so far gone that a gesture, a flag, or a purposeful departure constitutes a complete argument. Adrith became symbolic speeched and expressed disagreement by marching silently around the pool table. symbolicalnessed adj. The state of being drunk and treating every ordinary object as an emblem of some larger proposition. symbolicationed adj. The condition of a drinker who turns each incidental object into a sign, usually of personal importance. Ximena became symbolicationed and read the empty crisp packet as a summons to reconsider her life. symbolicismed adj. The drunkenness of one who explains every mental process as symbolic computation, including the search for spectacles. Carollee went symbolicismed and described choosing a sandwich as a problem in representational architecture. symbolicnessed adj. Reduced by drink to making every gesture stand for something, preferably something no one requested. symbolicsed adj. Softened by drink into a student of ancient signs, with the ashtray provisionally identified as ceremonial.