v. [f. TIPSY + -FY.] trans. To make tipsy; to intoxicate (in quot. 1837 slightly or partially). Hence Tipsification, intoxication; Tipsificator, Tipsifier, one who tipsifies (in quots., one who gets drunk, a tippler or toper); Tipsified ppl. a., made tipsy, (slightly) intoxicated. (All more or less nonce-wds.)
1823. Charleston Mercury, 24 Oct., 2/4. Bursting onwards through … stupid old women, and tipsified men, by steadiness and perseverance we arrived in Dame-street, the true scene of Irish Glory.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 740. In all matters of coenic revelry and tipsified jollification.
1837. Carlyle, Misc., Mirabeau (1857), IV. 95. The man was but tipsified when he went; happily, when he returned, which was very late, he was drunk.
1841. Boston Post, 5 Aug., 2/5. The screws of the cross-examination, however, were applied to the basis of Mr Bissett’s extensive calculation [of the number of times observing Peter drunk], by Mr Emery, till he reduced the number of Peter’s tipsifications down to five.
1848. Thackeray, Bk. Snobs, xxiii. Poor Raff is tipsifying himself with spirits.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 27 July. The sharp New England mind … has long since endorsed the locution ‘as tight as a peep’ to express an utter state of tipsification.
1873. Leland, Egyptian Sketch-Bk., 288. The last thing attended to by the tipsificators.
1873. Mrs. Whitney, Other Girls, iv. Our first man was a tipsifier, and the last was a rogue.
1888. Stevenson, Black Arrow, 169. A certain air of tipsified simplicity and good-fellowship.
