(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.
Teetotal
Definition:
(a.) Entire; total.
Example Sentences:
(1) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
(2) The Liberals had been the party not of teetotalism (no party led by Asquith could have made such a claim) but of temperance.
(3) We're all familiar with the classic noir detective – fresh-faced, clean living and teetotal, with his wholesome family life and penchant for golf and the Sunday roast … oh, wait a minute.
(4) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
(5) Apparently, he used to be straight-edge: "hyper-moral", as he puts it, teetotal, vegan.
(6) Goertz has cited Trump’s lifelong teetotalism as securing her vote.
(7) It is difficult to imagine that the team Adams broke into (which contained Charlie Nicholas, Kenny Sansom and several other players who were not, it is probably fair to say, teetotal bibliophiles) would have been terribly sympathetic to the character that has emerged since his treatment for alcohol addiction four years ago.
(8) Flaubert was a disappointed romantic who embraced realism like a drinker embraces teetotalism: his "realism" was less a social exposure than a quasi-scientific exactitude, peeling away everything that was not "true": "Poetry," he claimed, "is as precise as geometry."
(9) Teetotal Trump, according to Bloomberg journalists who by chance found themselves on the next table , celebrated with a virgin Bloody Mary and a $36 (£29) burger and fries.
(10) Not far away Stephen Edau, 19, head boy and teetotal father of two, dreams of becoming a doctor but wishes his mother would give up making the hooch that helps pay for his education.
(11) But once or twice he may have regretted his decision to go teetotal.
(12) Jimmy Carter , the teetotal former president of the United States, has hailed an award of money that helps secure the legacy of one of his heroes – the wildly alcoholic genius Dylan Thomas.
(13) The MPs were given the impression that Cameron was going out of his way to lay on the charm by allowing his children to play among the guests as drinks, including non-alcoholic ones for the teetotal drinkers, were served.
(14) Or it appears,” he corrects himself, “they are a bunch of crooks.” When the pair attended a meeting in February, Dyke had been teetotal since New Year’s Day.
(15) Additionally, 8 male patients with chronic alcoholism (group II) who were normolipemic under alcohol abuse, and 7 male patients (group II) who had also produced type-V HLP under chronic alcohol abuse, but were teetotal since at least 6 months, were investigated.
(16) At a rate that suggests I need to go teetotal for the remainder of my days.
(17) In the French tradition, that's about as much as we know of her private life, apart from the fact that she is teetotal, vegetarian and a fanatical swimmer who will stay only in hotels that have pools.
(18) The pre-prom pre-load Brave parents who can afford it may offer a pre-prom get-together for their son or daughter's friends, as well as their parents, providing lots of photo opportunites (under a tasteful balloon arch, naturally) plus the chance for 16-year-olds to discreetly preload a bit of alcohol before the strictly teetotal prom.
(19) Some months before, a sign that not all was well with the guitarist (who in those days coped with the pressures by drinking heavily, unlike the teetotal, running-and-white-tea regime he adopts now) came when he drove his car into a wall and was lucky to escape alive.
(20) The typical image of a yoga teacher is a vegan, teetotal Buddhist, but I'm partial to a kebab after the pub.