Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as crapulence.
  • noun A resin or confection of some drug producing intoxication, as hashish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as crapulence.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Sickness or indisposition caused by excessive eating or drinking.

Etymologies

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From Latin crāpula ("intoxication"), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipalē, "intoxication, hangover").

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Examples

  • Plures crapula, quam gladius, is a true saying, the board consumes more than the sword.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In pocula et aleam se praecipitavit, et iis fere tempus traduxit, ut aegram crapula mentem levaret, et conditionis praesentis cogitationes quibus agitabatur sobrius vitaret.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • "'Plures crapula quam gladius,'" said Love in a tone of cold amusement.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Nonne piger desidiam instruit et somnos provocat instrumentorum suavitate, aut vocum modulis, hilaritate canentium aut fabulantium gratia, sive quod turpius est ebrietate vel crapula? ...

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • Plures periere crapula, quam gladio [More perish by drink than by the sword].

    The Ten Commandments 1692

  • Qui suas animas auro, libidine, crapula et ambitiosis conspectibus vendiderunt, possuntne non esse inimicissimi

    Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

  • Hence in diabetes the lacteal system acts strongly, at the same time that the urinary lymphatics invert their motions, and transmit the chyle into the bladder; and in diarrhoea from crapula, or too great a quantity of food and fluid taken at a time, the lacteals act strongly, and absorb chyle or fluids from the stomach and upper intestines; while the lymphatics of the lower intestines revert their motions, and transmit this over-repletion into the lower intestines, and thus produce diarrhoea; which accounts for the speedy operation of some cathartic drugs, when much fluid is taken along with them.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

  • "Don't you think," I said, "that Dionysios is just lying up with a crapula?

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

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