inebriety

Poverty and crime have their origin in the corrupt heart, and their foundations are laid long and long before the first step is taken on the road to inebriety.

From Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Indra supersedes Varuna.He is "voracious;" his "inebriety is most intense;" he "dances with delight in battle."

From Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell

In two other cases nervous exhaustion from typhoid and typhus fever produced the same outcome in inebriety on the part of the father and mother.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot

In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common.

From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

It took possession of him too thoroughly, he said, with a plausible air, to allow of his affecting inebriety after holding an empty goblet to his lips, or swallowing mere toast-and-water or small beer.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook