0 someone who has drunk too much alcohol or who regularly does this: --
1 having drunk too much alcohol or regularly doing this: --
He funded the establishment of a home for inebriate women.
Our translator had been known to get so hopelessly inebriate as to be incapable of speech.
It concerns a man returning home late one night who saw under a lamp-post on his hands and knees another man who was clearly inebriated.
They will risk being slopped so long as they are not inebriated to a point which is likely to show in their ordinary driving.
Then look at the definition of an inebriate.
That is already being done with success in the case of inebriates asylums.
What we should do is to try to prevent these poor men and women becoming inebriates at all.
Some when inebriated see beetles; the eugenist, intoxicated, sees defectives.
I spoke just now of this class of habitual inebriates—170 men and 70 women.
A century ago we tried compulsion in respect of inebriates, and we abandoned it fifty years ago because it was found to be useless.
