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Teetotal

adjective

Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Synonym: dry. "No thank you; I happen to be teetotal"

verb

Practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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"Teetotal" Quotes from Famous Books

... of course, he must have taken, being a clergyman. This thought immediately attracted him, and with a sense of its literary value he sought to question Ringfield as to the effect of the Communion wine upon a teetotal community. By this time there was no doubt the minister had suffered a severe chill and the temptation became very strong to try the hot glass that stood ...

— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison

... lost my pipe in the last blooming charge." In a letter from the front, published in the Glasgow Herald, this passage occurs: "Our fellows have signed the pledge because Kitchener wants them to. But they all say, 'God help the Germans, when we get hold of them for making us teetotal.'" ...

— Tommy Atkins at War - As Told in His Own Letters • James Alexander Kilpatrick

... and all the scientific gents that proof of his being a near relation to the human race is found in the fact that he has a weakness for intoxicating liquors," said the Professor, sadly. "We've tried to reform him, but he refuses to become teetotal, showing how much a ...

— The Missing Link • Edward Dyson

... finds out your sore spots and rubs them away, besides cheating you into a little wholesome exercise; and you have nearly everything in medical practice to-day that is not flat witchcraft or pure commercial exploitation of human credulity and fear of death. Add to them a good deal of vegetarian and teetotal controversy raging round a clamor for scientific eating and drinking, and resulting in little so far except calling digestion Metabolism and dividing the public between the eminent doctor who tells us that we do not eat enough fish, and his equally eminent colleague ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

... so intense—'a few strong feelings,' as Mr. Wordsworth says—too strong for ordinary life. We really can't afford to love and hate and suffer in such a teetotal way now; but the squire came from the Middle Ages. This is ...

— The Squire of Sandal-Side - A Pastoral Romance • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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