ǁ Crapula. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. [L. crāpula excessive drinking, inebriation, intoxication, ad. Gr. κραιπάλη drunken headache or nausea, the result of a drunken debauch. In adopting the Gr. word, the Romans seem to have put the cause for the result; both senses are found in the English derivatives.]

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  1.  The sickness or indisposition following upon a drunken or gluttonous debauch.

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a. 1687.  Cotton, Poems, Night Quatrains (1689), 248. The drunkard … when he wakes … shall find A cropala remains behind.

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1721.  Bailey, Crapula, a Surfeit by over-eating and drinking: Crop-sickness, Drunkenness.

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  2.  A resin or drug productive of intoxication: a Latin use.

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1601.  Holland, Pliny, I. 424. If the wine when it is new be mighty and strong, they put in the more of this medicine or confection called Crapula.

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