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Feb. 20, 2016
abstemious\ab-STEE-mee-uh s\adjective
1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet.
2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life.
QuotesMr. Hall was no bon vivant: he was naturally an abstemious man,
indifferent to luxury; but Boultby and Helstone both liked good
cookeryâ¦
-- Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, 1849OriginAbstemious derives from the
Latin tÄmÄtum meaning "intoxicating drink." It entered English in the
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