He was already as a kid (like General Grant as a boy) on the sauce in a charming school-boy way. (S. Longstreet,The Real Jazz Old and New, 1956) pie-eyedDrunk, intoxicated, inebriated, loaded. He is partial to a “shot of gin,” and on occasion will drink till he is “pie-ey...
term - a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term" hard time - a term served in a maximum security prison life sentence, life - a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives; "he got life for killing the guard" ...
During the 12th century the school system came under the protection of the church, and it was assigned the task of combating heresies. At the end of the llth century the Patriarchal School opened: its curriculum included the interpretation of Holy Scripture as well as rhetorical training. ...
These adjectives describe what belongs to or dates from an earlier time or period. Old is the most general term: old lace; an old saying. Ancient pertains to the distant past: "the hills, / Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun" (William Cullen Bryant). Archaic implies a very remote, ...