ABSTEMIOUS

a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
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Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.] Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain. Milton.

2.
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Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

3.
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Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet. Gibbon.

4.
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Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life. "One abstemious day." Pope.

5.
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Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.] Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. Dryden.

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