Word Meanings - TOPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
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- EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - DRUNKARD
One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. - FREQUENTLY
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly. - INFREQUENTLY
Not frequently; rarely.