abstemious

abstemious englannista suomeksi

1. pidättyvä

2. kohtuullinen

1. kohtuullinen, pidättyvä

abstemious englanniksi

1. Refraining from freely consuming food or drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate. (defdate)

2. (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica)

3. (RQ:Milton Paradise Regained)&93; 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.

4. (quote-book) The Inſtances of Longevity are chiefly among the Abſtemious.|footer=(small)|brackets=on

5. (RQ:Mary Shelley Last Man) I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.

6. (quote-book) Below the ribs, the trunk so immediately curves in, that the red band of the silk covering, though it is only loosely placed, seems a tourniquet to constrict the bowels within their prison-house, and the hip-bones, being of their natural size, the waist is like a wasp's. By this part of the frame we are reminded of some descriptions of the abstemious and Bedouin Arab of the desert, in whom it is said the abdomen seems to cling to the vertbræ.|footer=(small)|brackets=on

7. (RQ:Maugham Moon and Sixpence)

8. (quote-book) Dionisiano Barrios was just the opposite: a timid, impaired man, an enemy of brawls and abstemious by nature.

9. Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

10. (quote-book)

11. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.

12. (quote-book)|year=1842|page=360|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=nSVhAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA360|column=2|oclc=562334031|passage=If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.

13. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.

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14. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)'' have a Friend, whoſe Care / Is bent to pleaſe him; this Requeſt forbear: / Till yonder Sun deſcend, ah let me pay / To Grief and Anguiſh one abſtemious Day.

15. Promotive of abstemiousness.

16. (RQ:Dryden Fables) ''Clytorian'' Streams the love of Wine expel, / (Such is the virtue of th' abſtemious Well;) (..)