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What does abstemious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
  2. Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation. [First attested in the mid 17th century.]
  3. Marked by, or spent in, abstinence
  4. (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.
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But if stricter Asians were the explanation, northern cities like Bradford would also be abstemious.
Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
Mr Bush had signed a bill in 2007 that will require much more abstemious cars by 2020, but then dallied over its implementation.
The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.

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