Sentence examples for inebriety from inspiring English sources

The phrase chronic alcoholism rapidly became a medical term for the condition of habitual inebriety, and the bearer of the "disease" was called an alcoholic or alcoholist (e.g., Italian alcoolisto, French alcoolique, German Alkoholiker, Spanish alcohólico, Swedish alkoholist).

James knew a great deal about drunkenness or inebriety, to use the language of his time.

Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.

Embury's generation learned to make drinks in the prohibition era with harsh bathtub gin, therefore "the primary object in mixing a cocktail became the otherwise emollient and anti-emetic ingredients to make it possible to swallow a sufficient content of alcohol to ensure ultimate inebriety".

Back then, it was re-released in the scholarly series Addiction in America, alongside such intriguing sounding titles as Inebriety (1888), Drugs That Enslave (1881), Morbid Craving For Morphia (1878) and Japan and the Opium Menace (1942).

Dent, who had begun his career in 1918 treating drunks around King's Cross in London, had pioneered the use of apomorphine as a cure for alcoholism, reporting his findings in the British Journal of Inebriety in 1931.