Intoxicate

v. t. [imp. & p. p. INTOXICATED; p. pr. & vb. n. INTOXICATING.] [L. Lat. intoxicare, intoxicatum, to drug or poison, from Lat. toxicum, Gr. τοξικόν (sc. φάρμακον), a poison in which arrows were dipped, from τοξικός, pertaining to a bow or arrow, from τόξον, bow, arrow; It. intossicare, to poison; Sp. intoxicar, O. Fr. intoxiquer.]

1Sense 1. To make drunk; to inebriate, as with spirituous liquor.

As with new wine intoxicated both, They swim in mirth. Milton.

2Sense 2. To excite to a kind of delirium; to elate to enthusiasm, frenzy, or madness; as, intoxicated with zeal.

a. 1. Inebriated. [Obs.] 2. Over-excited, as with joy, grief, and the like. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.