a. In 6 crapulus. [ad. L. crāpulōs-us, f. crāpula: cf. F. crapuleux.]
1. Characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating; intemperate, debauched.
1536. Bellenden, Cron. Scot. (1821), I. xxiv. Throw thair crapulus and schamfull glutone.
1721. Bailey, Crapulous, given to Gluttony.
1789. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 579. His distresses and his crapulous habits.
1839. Ld. Brougham, Statesm. Geo. III. (ed. 2), 210. The crapulous life which her future successor led.
1854. Badham, Halieut., 434. After one of these crapulous repasts.
1862. J. Thrupp, Anglo-Sax. Home, vii. 217. Under the Danish kings the monks were more crapulous than ever.
2. Suffering from the effects of intemperance in drinking; resulting from drunkenness.
1755. Johnson, Crapulous … sick with intemperance.
1802. Syd. Smith, Wks., 1859, I. 11/2. The crapulous eructations of a drunken cobbler.
1845. Ld. Campbell, Chancellors (1857), III. lvi. 141. Men who spend their evenings over their wine and awake crapulous in the morning.
1876. Bartholow, Mat. Med. (1879), 85. Crapulous diarrhœa and dysentery are not benefited by them.
