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Definitions
sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
Word origin
From Latin abstēmius (“abstaining from wine”); from ab, abs (“from”) + tēmus, a root of tēmētum (“intoxicating drink, especially strong mead or wine”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *temH- (“dark (referring to the colour of wine)”)) + -ous.
Used in a sentence
“Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.”
“[…] I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.”
“In the dimness of the landing I could not see him very well, but there was something in his voice that surprised me. I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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