(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.
(a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
(a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
(a.) Promotive of abstemiousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The life habits of 358 males abstemious (ABS) and 248 male risky or with harmful alcohol consumption (BRD) are compared; selected from the patients attending to a clinic of familiar medicine, of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) and to General Hospital of the Secretaria de Salubridad y Asistencia (SSA).
(2) Of those reporting behavior changes, 66% (25% of the total study group) claimed to be using condoms currently, and 16% (6% of the total study group) claimed to be abstemious.
(3) A remarkable part of people interviewed seems not to have a full understanding of self-definitions as "abstemious", "moderate drinker", "normal drinker", "heavy drinker".
(4) The abstemiousness of RA men compared with their OA counterparts was due to a striking increase in joint pain after drinking alcohol (p = 0.004), fear of adverse drug reactions with alcohol, and a widespread belief not expressed by OA men that 'alcohol and arthritis do not mix'.
(5) However, three-quarters of daughters of heavy-drinking fathers (21 of 28) married abstemious men (never drank or drank lightly), while only 7% married heavy-drinking husbands.
(6) By playing abstemious bloodsucker Edward Cullen in the five-part Twilight franchise (the final instalment of which comes out this winter) he has made studio Summit Entertainment two and a half billion dollars and himself into an international teen sex object.
(7) Parents – like a proportion of all parents before them – who fear their teenagers are growing up much too quickly might take comfort from that fact that in London, for example, the average age for the loss of virginity is quite an abstemious 19 years old.
(8) We’ll see a decision before the May budget and no doubt some pretty large spending promises for associated infrastructure in what is otherwise likely to be a fiscally abstemious document.
(9) The Authors have tested the plasma lipid values of elderly subjects, known as a "good drinkers" in relation to abstemious males of equal age.
(10) Evidence indicates there is more imitation by adult offspring of abstemious parents (both abstainer and low volume) than of high volume parents.
(11) Religious leaders As Lent begins, the church would have us stress simplicity and abstemiousness, purgation and renewal.
(12) Maximal offspring imitation is strongest for abstemious parents, especially for abstaining parents, and stronger for fathers abstaining than for mothers.
(13) No significant differences were found in the plasma lipid values of the good drinkers compared with those of the abstemious patients.
(14) Ironically, much of the overwhelming Trump coverage entailed panel discussions with commentators like Gloria Borger lamenting the fact that the wall-to-wall Trump coverage is crowing out engagement with any serious candidates like John Kasich, which is like watching an underclassman, mid-keg stand, gargling out, “I could get my life together if only I weren’t binge drinking!” Any journalism outlet – this one included – indulging in finger-wagging at CNN while pointing to their own marginal abstemiousness in this regard is essentially bragging about being the leper with the most fingers.
(15) The long-term effect of ethanol on human red cell membrane fluidity was studied, by fluorescence polarization with 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene as a probe, in 11 healthy subjects, 9 chronic alcoholics without evidence of liver disease, 12 chronic alcoholics with biopsy-proven alcoholic liver disease and 9 abstemious patients with chronic active liver disease, most of them cirrhosis of the liver.
(16) Conservatives What the party promised • George Osborne began the conference in abstemious mode, as he set out plans to cut benefits and squeeze public sector pay for another two years.
(17) After a lunch in Westminster with a packed room of lobby journalists last week, Farage was keen to have a few drinks and was full of bonhomie, only to be shunned by abstemious hacks.
(18) Alcohol levels were measured in 15 cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) samples and 14 blood samples from grade III and IV male alcoholic patients with signs of nervous system involvement, and compared with levels detected in 11 CSF samples and 11 blood samples from abstemious patients or patients with grade I or II alcoholism whose CSF had been found to be normal by routine analysis (controls).
(19) For high-drinking mothers, without problems or with problems (numbers are small), daughters' drinking appears "polarized": most (60%) are abstemious, but a higher number than expected (about 35%) show high volume thus imitating the mother's volume, compared to about 17% of the total sample of daughters who were high-volume drinkers.
(20) A few years ago, contestants chugged beers and wore jeans; most are now abstemious and decked out with professional cycling equipment.
Indulgence
Definition:
(n.) The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.
(n.) An indulgent act; favor granted; gratification.
(n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory.
(v. t.) To grant an indulgence to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
(2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
(3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
(5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
(8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
(11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
(12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
(13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
(14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
(16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
(18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
(19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.