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xenocided (/ˈzɛnəsaɪdd/) adj. Drunk enough to treat an unfamiliar face as an enemy merely for having arrived from elsewhere. Avaia became xenocided and objected to the visitor's accent with unnecessary historical confidence. xenoclasted adj. Drunk past the point of blending in, a conspicuously foreign fragment in every surrounding conversation. Lanequa sat xenoclasted among the regulars, differing from the local conversational material in every respect. xenocongrided adj. Drunk beyond ordinary eel-like discretion, emerging from the margins to offer opinions nobody had solicited. Stefphon went xenocongrided beneath the table and surfaced only to correct the barman. xenocontaminationed adj. Drunk in a way that introduces foreign material into every conversation, glass and otherwise controlled environment. Boyed became xenocontaminationed and deposited unrelated anecdotes in each discussion he entered. xenocoumacinned adj. Drunk, with the result that one's conversation behaves like an antibiotic released by an unfamiliar bacterium. Terell went xenocoumacinned and inhibited all sensible discussion within conversational range. xenocrystaled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves one as an isolated, foreign crystal in an otherwise coherent evening. Kaielle remained xenocrystaled at the dinner, a mineralogical interruption in the surrounding sociability. xenocrysted adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a conspicuous hard fragment in the soft matrix of the party. Pearleen grew xenocrysted and sat immovably amid the supper's more accommodating social material. xenocultured adj. Drunk on the strength of an imported set of manners, which one now regards as civilisation itself. Laylana became xenocultured and prescribed foreign table manners to people eating chips. xenocurrencied adj. Drunk since last orders, and circulating socially outside one's domestic jurisdiction. Deep was xenocurrencied, accepted nowhere locally yet somehow traded throughout the room. xenocytologied (/zɛnəsaɪˈtɑləd͡ʒid/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and examining the room's smallest social units as though extraterrestrial. Anderew became xenocytologied and studied the cellular arrangement of strangers around the bar. xenodermatided adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding with the ridged, deliberate sinuosity of an unfamiliar snake. Nanayaw went xenodermatided, navigating the closing pub by a series of careful lateral movements. xenodermided adj. Still drunk, and displaying the reserved, patterned menace of a snake no local field guide recognises. Shadae remained xenodermided at breakfast, silent beneath an arrangement of improbable explanations. xenodiagnosised adj. Too drunk to diagnose the infection except by exposing a convenient insect and waiting for evidence. Linayah became xenodiagnosised and proposed testing the pub's fruit flies for whatever afflicted her. xenodiscided adj. Sufficiently drunk to resemble an ammonite whose chambers have been filled with several incompatible evenings. Lee-anna grew xenodiscided, proceeding in elegant coils through the increasingly fossilised party. xenodiversitied adj. Having drunk enough to increase the room's diversity by introducing several foreign organisms into one conversation. Sylwia became xenodiversitied and represented at least three unverified cultures before pudding. xenodocheioned adj. Having drunk more than the monastery's guesthouse was designed to accommodate, and treating every corridor as pilgrim lodging. Inaky went xenodocheioned and attempted to billet himself in the vestry beside the hymn books.