Now rare. [ad. post-cl. L. tēmulentia drunkenness, f. tēmulent-us: see next and -ENCY.] Drunkenness, inebriety.
1623. Cockeram, Temulencie, drunkennesse.
a. 1640. Jackson, Creed, X. vii. Without impeachment to his sobriety, or Censure of temulency.
1732. Arbuthnot, Rules of Dict, in Aliments, etc., 260. Used in great Quantities it will produce Temulency or Drunkenness.
1853. Badham, Halieut. (1854), 525. The vigorous lines in which Crabbe depicts the progress of temulency amongst a club of topers.
