a. Now rare. [ad. L. tēmulent-us, from root tēm- in tēmētum intoxicating drink, after vinolentus from vinum wine.] Drunken, intoxicated; given to, characterized by, or proceeding from drunkenness; intoxicating.
1628. Jackson, Creed, VI. xiii. § 1. Clytus, whom he had newly slain in his temulent rage.
1668. G. C., in H. More, Div. Dial., Pref. i. (1713), 14. Such tipsie and temulent Raptures.
1770. Chatterton, in Europ. Mag. (1804), XLV. 85. Sooner … Than I, to frenzy temulent, with love, False to its palpitating precepts prove.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), III. 494. Sometimes it produces a temulent effect.
Hence Temulently adv., Temulentness; also † Temulentious, † Temulentive adjs., drunken.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 210. The Spaniards are proud: The French inconstant:… the Dutch *temulencious.
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. [I.] lxxxiv. 241. A swimming Eye; a Face both roast and sod; a *temulentiue Tongue.
1623. Cockeram, II. Drunkenly done, *temulently.
1727. Bailey, vol. II., Temulently, after a drunken Manner. *Temulentness, Drunkenness.
