APage 38
- English Word Abstemious Definition Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
- English Word Abstemious Definition Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
- English Word Abstemious Definition Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
- English Word Abstemious Definition Promotive of abstemiousness.
- English Word Abstemiousness Definition 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.
- English Word Abstention Definition The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
- English Word Abstentious Definition Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
- English Word Absterge Definition To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
- English Word Abstergent Definition Serving to cleanse, detergent.
- English Word Abstergent Definition A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
- English Word Absterse Definition To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
- English Word Abstersion Definition Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
- English Word Abstersive Definition Cleansing; purging.
- English Word Abstersive Definition Something cleansing.
- English Word Abstersiveness Definition The quality of being abstersive.
- English Word Abstinence Definition The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.
- English Word Abstinence Definition The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
- English Word Abstinency Definition Abstinence.
- English Word Abstinent Definition Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
- English Word Abstinent Definition One who abstains.