Abstemious: Definition and part of speech

Abstemious

  1. a. Promotive of abstemiousness.
  2. a. Abstaining from wine.
  3. a. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
  4. a. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
  5. a. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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