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tephraed (/ˈtɛ.fɹəd/) adj. Slowed by drink to a settling fall, covering the surrounding conversation in fine, irrelevant particulars. Jacaria became tephraed and descended gradually upon every nearby discussion. tephramancied adj. Drunk and reading the evening’s ashes as though they had been arranged for divination. tephriphonolited adj. Drunk enough to become geologically intermediate, neither one thing nor the other, but emphatically extrusive. Oel was tephriphonolited, neither staying in nor going out, but emphatically extrusive. tephrited adj. Drunk past the point of remaining fluid, having consolidated into a mineral assemblage of uncertain composition. tephritided adj. Drunk beyond fruit-fly decorum, with a persistent attraction to anything sweet and insufficiently defended. tephritoided adj. Drunk in a way that produces the erratic flight, short attention span and sweet-toothed purpose of a small fly. tephrochronologied adj. Drunk to a degree that the evening is reconstructed from discrete deposits of glasses, receipts and regrettable remarks. tephrochronologisted adj. Drunk, with the result that every layer of the evening is assigned a date and a volcanic origin. tephrochronometried adj. Drunk to the extent of timing the formation of every ash layer, chiefly those produced by burnt supper. Vidia became tephrochronometried and measured the interval between each culinary disaster. tephrocorrelationed adj. Drunk on the strength of identifying distant deposits as products of the same eruption, usually an argument. tephroided adj. Drunk since last orders, and mineralogically committed to being a lesser form of the same hard substance. tephroited adj. Drunk by the third round, and containing manganese, oxygen, silicon and no credible route home. tephrologied adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting the scientific study of every ash-like residue in the establishment. tephromancied adj. Drunk to the point where ash, having lost its evidential value, is nevertheless consulted for prophecy. tephrosiaed adj. Still drunk, and shrub-like in persistence, leguminous in outlook and difficult to remove from the doorway. tephrosinned adj. Too drunk to remain hospitable to fish, having acquired the quiet efficacy of a natural piscicide. Jashley became tephrosinned and regarded the ornamental pond with dubious chemical intent.