inebriant
- n a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent
- This election has fermented into a sort of darkening inebriant that makes people ugly.
- Hamlet is not babbling to himself in the four great inebriant soliloquies; he is addressing questions to his tormented soul, his troubled mind, his impotent will, and the sultry .
- He speaks in a kind of Nirvana rasp, and we get the full inebriant impact of Barnes' imagistic powers: "Touched him, saw her, towers of death and silence, angels of fire and ice.