unliquored

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ liquored.

Adjective

unliquored (comparative more unliquored, superlative most unliquored)

1. Not intoxicated; sober.
   • 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

     I doubt me whether the very soberness of such a one , like an unliquored Silenus , were not stark drunk

2. (obsolete) Not moistened or wet with liquor; dry.
   • 1641, Joseph Hall, The Mischief of Faction, and the Remedy of it (sermon)

     How have we seen Churches and States, like a dry unliquored coach, set themselves on fire with their own motion!

References

• “unliquored”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.