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ab-STEM-ee-uhs
adjective
consumed sparingly; used conservatively; temperate
1862The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus AureliusWhen he was eleven years old he assumed the dress of philosophers, something plain and coarse, became a hard student, and lived a most laborious, abstemious life, even so far as to injure his health.1886Long OddsHe had eaten his dinner and drunk two or three glasses of old port, just to help Good and myself to the end of the second bottle. It was an unusual thing for him to do, for he was a most abstemious man, having conceived, as he used to say, a great horror of drink from observing its effects upon the class of colonists—hunters, transport riders and others—amongst whom he had passed so many years of his life.1961ThunderballI recommend that No. 007 should take it easy for two to three weeks on a more abstemious regime, when I believe he would make a complete return to his previous exceptionally high state of physical fitness.Labels: H. Rider Haggard, Ian Fleming, Marcus Aurelius
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