Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abstemious manner; temperately; with a sparing use of meat or drink.
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- adverb in a sparing manner; without overindulgence
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Examples
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Life and the joy of life romped through her blood, abstemiously filling out and rounding off each shapely muscle and soft curve.
CHAPTER 8 2010
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In a 2002 interview in Britain's Guardian with one of bin Laden's wives in Afghanistan, identified only as "AS," she revealed that in the late 1990s he had lived abstemiously, eating bread, yogurt, honey and dates but rarely meat.
Nurtured in Ease, Destined for Infamy Stephen Miller 2011
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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years — nor in twenty times threescore years — a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.
The Minions of Midas 2010
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Can you give me an example of something that failed abstemiously?
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“I see you eat abstemiously and drink no wine,” said Polygonus.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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He sipped abstemiously at a drink or two, exchanged a polite word with the dean or such department heads as happened to be present, bestowed a narrow smile on others and finally left early.
The Complete Stories Vol 1 Asimov, Isaac 1990
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'My laboratories have been aware of its effectiveness ¦ if properly and abstemiously used ¦ in restraining mental cases, in the stimulation of certain muscular center, in ¦ ways too numerous to list.
Restoree McCaffrey, Anne 1967
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By the time I knew her, at fifty-two, she ate abstemiously; she neither drank nor smoked; and she was likely to wake, as people do in middle life, by nine.
A Portrait of Gertrude Stein Thomson, Virgil 1966
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They lived very abstemiously, observing periods of self-denial and continence.
The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1774-1824 1954
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He rises early, lives abstemiously and works until far into the night.
oroboros commented on the word abstemiously
longest word in english using 6 vowels in order
December 1, 2006