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Abstemious

adjective
1.
Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink.  Antonym: gluttonous.
2.
Marked by temperance in indulgence.  Synonym: light.  "A light eater" , "A light smoker" , "Ate a light supper"



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"Abstemious" Quotes from Famous Books



... and often a distressing symptom of pregnancy. The acid producing the heartburn is frequently much increased by an overloaded stomach. An abstemious diet ought to be strictly observed. Great attention should be paid to the quality of the food. Greens, pastry, hot buttered toast, melted butter, and everything that is rich and gross, ought to be carefully ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... wonderful dexterity, it need not be wholly condemned. But as we look upon a favorite maple or fruit tree devitalized or perhaps wholly dead from its ravages, we cannot forget that this bird, while a most abstemious fruit-eater, has a pernicious and most intemperate thirst for sap. Indeed, it spends much of its time in the orchard, drilling holes into the freshest, most vigorous trees; then, when their sap begins to flow, it siphons it into an insatiable throat, stopping ...
— Bird Neighbors • Neltje Blanchan

... medical standpoint there were no complications whatever in my case; it was just as simple as a cut finger. Regarded from this point of view, a broken head is a small matter indeed, in a youth of abstemious habits and healthy life. Well, he was a very thoroughly chastened youth who accepted the cheery physician's congratulations upon his early discharge ...
— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... everybody who has lived in Aden must do, that that is the worst place in the world for effecting cures, had I not, in addition to a strong constitution which I fortunately possess, been living for many months previously in a very abstemious manner, principally, as appears in the body of the journal, on dates, ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke

... his life Michael Angelo has been very abstemious, taking food more from necessity than from pleasure, especially when at work, at which time, for the most part, he has been content with a piece of bread, which he munched whilst he laboured. But latterly he has lived more regularly, his advanced age requiring it. I have often ...
— Michael Angelo Buonarroti • Charles Holroyd


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