"cup-shotten" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more cup-shotten [comparative], most cup-shotten [superlative]
Etymology: England, circa 1330 Head templates: {{en-adj}} cup-shotten (comparative more cup-shotten, superlative most cup-shotten)
  1. (obsolete) Intoxicated; drunk. Tags: obsolete Synonyms: drunk, cupshotten Related terms: cup-shot
    Sense id: en-cup-shotten-en-adj-cMdXbbMu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1603, Philemon Holland, The Philosophie, commonlie called, the Morals, translation of Moralia by Plutarch",
          "text": "In which verses, the poet if I be not deceived, doth covertly and by the way imply a difference betweene liberall drinking of wine, or being somewhat cup-shotten, and drunkennesse indeed: for to sing, to laugh, and to daunce, be ordinarie matters, incident to those who have taken their liquor well, and be heat with wine, but to prate like a foole, and not as the Latine seemeth to reade.",
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        "(obsolete) Intoxicated; drunk."
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