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Intoxication

the state produced by the excessive use of alcoholic liquids.

In the first stage the circulation of the blood becomes somewhat more rapid, and all the functions of the body and mind are exercised with more freedom. In the next degree consciousness is still more weakened; the ideas lose their connection; vertigo, double vision, and other discomforts supervene; till finally the excitement partakes of the nature of delirium, and is followed by a more or less prolonged stupor, often by dangerous coma.

INTRANSIGENTES (-trän'sē-hentāz) (Spanish, "the irreconcilables"), the name given to the Extreme Left in the Spanish Cortes, and afterward to the Extreme Republican party in Spain, corresponding with the Communists in France. In the latter sense it was first INTRENCHMENT used in the Spanish troubles which arose when Amadeus resigned the throne in

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