Green’s Dictionary of Slang

drunk, thus tossication, drunkenness (see cite 1825).

1812		Liverpool Mercury 12 June 3/2: Cleaver, thc butcher; which [...] got ‘terrible tossicated’ to use his own phrase.
1822		British Press 27 Dec. 4: The prisoner, in her defence, said she was a good deal tossicated.
1825		Pierce Egan’s Life in London 2 Oct. 282/2: [H]e would often come in a state of tossication.
1826		Australian (Sydney) 24 June 4/1: Cookey came home much ‘tossicated in regard of the liquor;’ he appeared rather amorously inclined.
1831		Freeman’s Jrnl (Dublin) 7 Sept. 3/2: I called him a bloody ould robber, and I’d call yer honur the same if ye wur there, bekase I was tossicated.
1831		Satirist (London) 8 May 34/3: ‘[T]he gemman wasn’t by no means ’tossicated ven he got into the coach’.
1843		Hereford Times 14 Jan. 3/6: Completely Tossicated. Ann Reid was charged with being drunk and disorderly at St. Owen’s-gate.
1843		Port Philip Patriot 30 Jan. n.p.: The prisoner said she had but just arrived from the bush, and had got ‘tossicated’ on a sudden.
1852		Bath Chron. 13 May 4/6: They accordingly indulged so freely in the liberal draughts, that he (defendant) must acknowledge he was much tossicated.
1853		Bathurst Free Press (NSW) 18 June 2/3: Why, sir I beleive vos a little tossicated, but don’t your vership see the liguor was bad — quite o’er powered me.
1860		Brighton Guardian 29 Sept. 2/3: I had nothing previously to drink but a little tea and table beer, which would not make even an old woman tossicated.
1870		Newry Reporter 30 July 3/2: [H]aving imbibed a few glasses of ale, she became a little tossicated and imagined herself a Frenchwoman [and]declared herself ready take the sword to chastise the insolent Prussian any.
1889		Galloway News 5 Apr. 7/3: Judge—. ‘If I got as intoxicated as you do, I’d shoot myself.’ Prisoner— ‘If you was ’s tossicated as I am, you couldn’t hitter barn door’ .
1896		Yorks. Gaz. 7 Nov. 9/3: They went ashore that night and nxt day were tossicated as ever.