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Abstemious
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What's The Definition Of Abstemious?
[adj] sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy
[adj] marked by temperance in indulgence; "abstemious meals"; "a light eater"; "a light smoker"; "ate a light supper" Synonyms | Synonyms for Abstemious: abstentious | abstinent | ascetic | ascetical | austere | light(a) | spartan | temperate Related Terms | Find terms related to Abstemious: abstentious | abstinent | Apostolic | ascetic | austere | celibate | chaste | continent | dwarfed | dwarfish | Encratic | exiguous | frugal | fruitarian | impoverished | jejune | lean | Lenten | limited | meager | mean | miserly | narrow | nephalistic | niggardly | on the wagon | paltry | parsimonious | poor | puny | Pythagorean | Rechabite | scant | scanty | scrawny | scrimp | scrimpy | self-abnegating | self-denying | sexually abstinent | Shaker | skimp | skimpy | slender | slight | slim | small | sober | spar | spare | sparing | Spartan | starvation | stingy | stinted | Stoic | straitened | stunted | subsistence | sworn off | teetotal | temperate | thin | unnourishing | unnutritious | vegetarian | watered | watery See Also | nonindulgent Abstemious In Webster's Dictionary \Ab*ste"mi*ous\, a. [L. abstemius; ab, abs + root of
temetum intoxicating drink.]
1. Abstaining from wine. [Orig. Latin sense.]
Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and
thrived amain. --Milton.
2. 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. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an
abstemious diet. --Gibbon.
4. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious
life. ``One abstemious day.'' --Pope.
5. Promotive of abstemiousness. [R.]
Such is the virtue of the abstemious well. --Dryden.
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