Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Intoxicated.
- Tossed about; restless; perplexed.
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Examples
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I have been so tosticated about since my last, that I could not go on in my journal manner, though my shoulder is a great deal better; however, I feel constant pain in it, but I think it diminishes, and I have cut off some slices from my flannel.
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If you have not your letters in due time for two months hence, impute it to my being tosticated between this and Windsor.
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Being therewith so tosticated, that all their other business is dispersed, and totally laid aside.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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I have been so tosticated about since my last, that I could not go on in my journal manner, though my shoulder is a great deal better; however, I feel constant pain in it, but I think it diminishes, and I have cut off some slices from my flannel.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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Faith, I'm so tosticated to and from Windsor, that I know not what to say; but, faith, I'll go to Windsor again on Saturday, if they ask me, not else.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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If you have not your letters in due time for two months hence, impute it to my being tosticated between this and Windsor.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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My father remonstrated in vain-the passion had already taken too deep a hold; and one day he was suddenly summoned from his work with the startling information, that 'Mother Mullins' -- (so the kind neighbour phrased it) was sitting on the step of a public house, in the suburbs, completely 'tosticated.'
Sketches — Complete Robert Seymour 1818
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My father remonstrated in vain-the passion had already taken too deep a hold; and one day he was suddenly summoned from his work with the startling information, that 'Mother Mullins' -- (so the kind neighbour phrased it) was sitting on the step of a public house, in the suburbs, completely 'tosticated.'
Sketches — Volume 05 Robert Seymour 1818
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Faith, I'm so tosticated to and from Windsor, that I know not what to say; but, faith, I'll go to Windsor again on Saturday, if they ask me, not else.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
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I have been so tosticated about since my last, that I could not go on in my journal manner, though my shoulder is a great deal better; however, I feel constant pain in it, but I think it diminishes, and I have cut off some slices from my flannel.
The Journal to Stella Jonathan Swift 1706
bilby commented on the word tosticated
See tostications.
December 18, 2007