Citations:debacchate

English citations of debacchate

rant drunkenly

• 1663, Sir John Fortscue Knight, "Fortescutus illustratus; or, A commentary on that nervous treatise De laudibus legum Angliae",page 86:

And Philo long ago, though he debacchates not againſt him, yet ſpeaks with an indifferency, which amounts to a reproach.

• 1897, Edward Vizetelly, The Remininiscences of a Bashi-bazouk

His assistants, the Ganymedae of the place, in the form of three or four dirty-looking lads of the same race as himself, unabashed by the coarse remarks and imprecations levelled at them by the half-inebriated, debacchating customers, hurried from counter to table distributing the poison and taking the money.

• 2003 January 1, Matt Smith, "Fissilingual Predictions", SF Weekly:

Most local psychics seemed to have moved over to the East Bay. (That's the last time I listen to Hallinan's debacchating.)