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[Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled † , sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy † ,<br />

muddled, muzzy † , obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous † , dead drunk.<br />

woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed.<br />

inter pocula † ; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas<br />

over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.<br />

drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe,<br />

drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.<br />

drunken, bibacious † , sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle;<br />

toping &c v..<br />

Phr. nunc est bibendum [Lat.]; Bacchus ever fair and young [Dryden]; drink down all<br />

unkindness [Merry Wives]; O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal<br />

away their brains [Othello].<br />

960. Purity -- N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty,<br />

virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity † , pucelage † , virginity.<br />

vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.<br />

Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous; virginibus puerisque [Lat.];<br />

simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic.<br />

virgin, unsullied; cherry [Coll.].<br />

Phr. as chaste as unsunn'd snow [Cymbeline]; a soul as white as heaven [Beaumont and<br />

Fletcher]; 'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity [Milton]; to the pure all things are pure<br />

[Shelley].<br />

961. Impurity -- N. impurity; uncleanness &c (filth) 653; immodesty; grossness &c adj.;<br />

indelicacy, indecency; impudicity † ; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry † ,<br />

double entente, equivoque [Fr.].<br />

concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency † ,<br />

lubricity; Sadism, sapphism † .<br />

incontinence, intrigue, faux pas [Fr.]; amour, amourette † ; gallantry; debauchery,<br />

libertinish † , libertinage † , fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation.<br />

seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest.<br />

prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration † , whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom † ,<br />

adultery, advoutry † , crim.<br />

con.; free love.<br />

seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio † , stew, bawdyhouse † , cat house, lupanar † , house of ill<br />

fame, bordel † , bordello.<br />

V. be impure &c adj.; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate,<br />

deflower; commit adultery &c n..<br />

Adj. impure; unclean &c (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest,<br />

shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risque [Fr.], coarse,<br />

gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.<br />

concupiscent, prurient, lickerish † , rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd,<br />

lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish,<br />

must, musty.

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