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Abstemious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks.

2. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious

3. Sparing in the enjoyment of animal pleasures of any kind. [This sense is less common, and perhaps not legitimate.]

4. Sparingly used, or used with temperance; belonging to abstinence; as an abstemious diet; an abstemious life.

Abstemious [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

4. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.

5. Promotive of abstemiousness.

Abstemiously [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Temperately; with a sparing use of meat or drink.

Abstemiousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The quality of being temperate or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks.

2. This word expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

Abstemiousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.