Because of this, we have the word "dipsomania," which the OED defines as. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
Her "dipsomania" took an unaggressive form, as she was by nature gentle and sweet; she simply used to shut herself in and drink until she would cry herself into a timid, suppressed hysteria. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
I probably got too depressed reading the comments that came before and, consequently, fed my own dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [Follow up on the Israeli low-carb study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
By the 16th century, the treatment for hydrophobia had already become a metaphor for dealing with dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [Hair of the Dog and Other 'Cures'] Reference
It may be a far more remote inheritance that has started the degenerative psychosis that results in either insanity, feeble-mindedness, dipsomania, or "general debility of character.". From Wordnik.com. [The Family and it's Members] Reference
When Rabelais was faced with the worst drought in French history, he didn't quit, but he made that the subject for a comic work on dipsomania and the delights of drunkenness, and so it goes. From Wordnik.com. [The Creators] Reference
Twitter and Facebook habit low-middling level dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [ScottCarless (It's okay to be my disappointment baby, it's okay to fly the flag)] Reference
I told him, and found that Trescott's dipsomania was as well known to him as myself. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic] Reference
His views resulted in depression, which led to dipsomania, and he died in poverty and misery. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
One firm actually has the assurance to advertise a preparation of this kind as a remedy for dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference
It's best not to be too intelligent about insanity and dipsomania and all the other hereditary details. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Enemy] Reference
What compensation dipsomania gave him I know not, but that he did get some kind of wild joy I am quite sure. From Wordnik.com. [London's Underworld] Reference
"The only radical remedy I know for dipsomania is religiomania," is a saying I have heard quoted from some medical man. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
Alan says to accept your parents in all their boorish dipsomania or simply continue to avoid bringing round your friends. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
And the reader of Mr. Archdall Reid will round up the list with “immunity” from dipsomania and all contagious diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
But dipsomania is not one of the pretty things of life; nor can it by any stretch of benevolent hypocrisy be made to pass as one. From Wordnik.com. [The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage] Reference
And with the victims of kleptomania, dipsomania, and other moral manias, it is well known that a sound whipping will often stop the nuisance. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence] Reference
My nerves were unstrung, and I had that generally tremulous feeling which is, I believe, an inseparable companion of the more advanced stages of dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Another point of some importance where I cannot agree with you is your treating dipsomania as a disease, only to be eliminated by drunkenness and its effects. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences]
The former governor appeared to have a kind of clothing dipsomania - partaking of not infrequent binges to buy custom-made suits at a Michigan Ave. haberdasher. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
Zulora (the elder of my host's daughters) ran up to her and embraced her as soon as she entered the room, at the same time inquiring tenderly after her "poor dipsomania.". From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania, it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught. From Wordnik.com. [Sadhana : the realisation of life] Reference
An article about Edgar Allan Poe by Maurice Levy begins with the statement that only the daring write about Poe "without evoking his dipsomania, opiomania, cyclothymia, paraphrenia, and sado-necrophilia". From Wordnik.com. [Futurismic] Reference
"immunity" from dipsomania and all contagious diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
dipsomania may seem strange for a country that doesn't particularly overindulge. From Wordnik.com. [latimes.com - News] Reference
Now that I looked up dipsomania, I could have made a wittier comment about when I’m drinking too much. From Wordnik.com. [Follow up on the Israeli low-carb study | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
(And if you want to send me an early invitation to the beta feel free omnidrive dipsomania net reply jeevs. From Wordnik.com. [Omnidrive – Online Storage Perfection] Reference
91 She had been for many years excessively given to drinking, and in her case it had developed to actual ‘dipsomania’. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
(many cases of dipsomania belong to this class); others have recourse to debauchery; a third class go off like tramps for days; while a fourth attempt suicide. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
Zulora (the elder of my host’s daughters) ran up to her and embraced her as soon as she entered the room, at the same time inquiring tenderly after her “poor dipsomania.”. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
Your 24/7 MSM dipsomania is irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Wingnuts Embrace Margaret Carlson's Falsehoods About Hillary] Reference
If he yields again, it will soon be acute dipsomania, and then -- "he shrugged his shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [My Young Alcides] Reference
It is safe to assert that no idiopathic case of insanity, chorea, hysteria, megrim, dipsomania, or moral insanity, can occur except by reason of inherited predisposition. ". From Wordnik.com. [What a Young Woman Ought to Know] Reference
It verged on dipsomania. From Wordnik.com. [Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative] Reference
"These dipsomania cases generally end that way. From Wordnik.com. [The Black] Reference
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