Green’s Dictionary of Slang

drunk, also as adv.

1868		M. Chester Memoirs 17: In a few hours’ time they all returned; but all considerably worse for liquor, or, as my friend used to express it, ‘palatic drunk’.
1877		L. Egerton Gloss. Words Used in Dialect of Cheshire 236: Palatic, a. — paralysed with drink. A witness at the Chester police-court said of one charged with being drunk and incapable, ‘He wasna riotous, your wusships, he wur past that, he was palatic!’.
1880		Western Gaz. 12 Nov. 6/1: He had a ‘palatic’ stroke [...] He was very drinkey.
1885		‘Corin’ Truth about Stage 28: Burke, the leading-man, had not turned up, and [...] Sandy told me that he last saw him dreadfully ‘palatic’ (drunk), assisted by his wife and daughter, who were helping him home.
1888		Manchester Courier 26 Apr. 7/1: The priusoner’s defence was that he was ‘palatic’ drunk.
1897		Hull Dly Mail 19 Oct. 4/3: He said he was palatic drunk.
1907		J.M. Synge Playboy of the Western World Act III: And I not three weeks with the Limerick girls drinking myself silly, and parlatic from the dusk to dawn.
1933		‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight.
1974		Star Press (Muncie, IN) 24 Oct. 23/2: The Irish have at least two dozen words for inebriation [...] killarneyed, fluthered, stotious, pallatic, maggoty, blithero, half-tore, paralytic and stoven.
1977		J. Plunkett Coll. Short Stories 277: The majority up there is young blades getting parlatic on the smell of a cork .
1983		J. Pepper Illus. Encyc. Ulster Knowledge n.p.: Had he drink on him? aims to establish if someone was (a) palatic (b) bluthered [BS].
1989		J. Morton Lowspeak.
1998		K. Sampson Awaydays 72: The Nosh Queens are all over me, pallatic, asking where you are.
2001		K. Sampson Outlaws (ms.) 66: He’d’ve just thought I was pallatic blacking out in his cab like that, giving him two and a half pound out of a flim.
2003		Brummagem Dict. 🌐 : palatick adj. drunk.