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"ref": "[1731, John Arbuthnot, “Of the Different Intentions to be Pursued in the Choice of Aliment in Different Constitutions”, in An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In which the Different Effects, Advantages and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet are Explain’d, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at the Shakespear's Head, George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, and William Smith, at the Hercules, book-sellers in Dame's-Street, →OCLC, proposition VII (To Explain the Symptoms, Causes, and Proper Diet of Constitutions, which Abound with a Spontaneous Alkali), paragraph 20, pages 91–92",
"text": "In too great Repletion either the elaſtick Force of the Tube is totally deſtroy'd; or if it continue proportional to the Degree of Extenſion like a Bow too ſtrongly drawn, it throws the Fluid with too great a projectile Force forward through the Veſſels, and back upon the Heart, and ſubjects the Animal to all the Diſeaſes depending on a Plethory, and may bring it into immediate Danger. […] The Inſtances of Longevity are chiefly among the Abſtemious.\nA use of the adjective as a noun.]",
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"ref": "[1845, [Robert Malcolm, comp.], “The Living Skeleton”, in Curiosities of Biography, Or Memoirs of Remarkable Men, Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Company, →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "On turning around, I was instantly rivetted by his amazing emaciation; he seemed another \"Lazarus, come forth\" without his grave-clothes, […] Below the ribs, the trunk so immediately curves in, that the red band of the silk covering, though it is only loosely placed, seems a tourniquet to constrict the bowels within their prison-house, and the hip-bones, being of their natural size, the waist is like a wasp's. By this part of the frame we are reminded of some descriptions of the abstemious and Bedouin Arab of the desert, in whom it is said the abdomen seems to cling to the vertbræ.\nA use of the adjective as a noun.]",
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"ref": "2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 4, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 228",
"text": "The other duel, which occurred much earlier but was indelible in the town's memory, was the one between Plinio Balmaceda and Dionisiano Barrios. The first was a member of an old and respectable family, an enormous, charming man but also a troublemaker with a wicked temper when he crossed paths with alcohol. […] Dionisiano Barrios was just the opposite: a timid, impaired man, an enemy of brawls and abstemious by nature.",
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"ref": "2010, Rebecca L. Davis, “Sacred Partnerships”, in More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, page 149",
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"ref": "1842, John Reitch, “[A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine.] EPILEPSY.”, in Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Manual: Comprising Everything Related to Cookery, Diet, Economy and Medicine. By Gibbons Merle. The Medical Portion of the Work by John Reitch, M.D., London: William Strange, 21, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 360, column 2",
"text": "If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.",
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"ref": "[1731, John Arbuthnot, “Of the Different Intentions to be Pursued in the Choice of Aliment in Different Constitutions”, in An Essay concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. In which the Different Effects, Advantages and Disadvantages of Animal and Vegetable Diet are Explain’d, Dublin: Printed by S. Powell, for George Risk, at the Shakespear's Head, George Ewing, at the Angel and Bible, and William Smith, at the Hercules, book-sellers in Dame's-Street, →OCLC, proposition VII (To Explain the Symptoms, Causes, and Proper Diet of Constitutions, which Abound with a Spontaneous Alkali), paragraph 20, pages 91–92",
"text": "In too great Repletion either the elaſtick Force of the Tube is totally deſtroy'd; or if it continue proportional to the Degree of Extenſion like a Bow too ſtrongly drawn, it throws the Fluid with too great a projectile Force forward through the Veſſels, and back upon the Heart, and ſubjects the Animal to all the Diſeaſes depending on a Plethory, and may bring it into immediate Danger. […] The Inſtances of Longevity are chiefly among the Abſtemious.\nA use of the adjective as a noun.]",
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"ref": "[1845, [Robert Malcolm, comp.], “The Living Skeleton”, in Curiosities of Biography, Or Memoirs of Remarkable Men, Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Company, →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "On turning around, I was instantly rivetted by his amazing emaciation; he seemed another \"Lazarus, come forth\" without his grave-clothes, […] Below the ribs, the trunk so immediately curves in, that the red band of the silk covering, though it is only loosely placed, seems a tourniquet to constrict the bowels within their prison-house, and the hip-bones, being of their natural size, the waist is like a wasp's. By this part of the frame we are reminded of some descriptions of the abstemious and Bedouin Arab of the desert, in whom it is said the abdomen seems to cling to the vertbræ.\nA use of the adjective as a noun.]",
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"ref": "2003, Gabriel García Márquez, chapter 4, in Edith Grossman, transl., Living to Tell the Tale, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 228",
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"ref": "2010, Rebecca L. Davis, “Sacred Partnerships”, in More Perfect Unions: The American Search for Marital Bliss, Cambridge, Mass., London: Harvard University Press, page 149",
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{
"word": "abstinent"
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"word": "continent"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "vǎzdǎ́ržan",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "въздъ́ржан"
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"word": "abstemi"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "matig"
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"code": "nl",
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"word": "karig"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "frugaal"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "kohtuullinen"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "pidättyvä"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
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"masculine"
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"word": "abstemio"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "abstemia"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "enthaltsam"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "egkratís",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "εγκρατής"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "astemio"
},
{
"alt": "きんよくてき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kinyokuteki",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "禁欲的"
},
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"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "abstēmius"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vozdéržannyj",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "возде́ржанный"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umérennyj",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "уме́ренный"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "skrómnyj",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "скро́мный"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "abstemio"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "sobrio"
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{
"code": "sv",
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"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "avhållsam"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "återhållsam"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink",
"word": "måttfull"
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"roman": "umeren",
"sense": "sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions",
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"roman": "pesteliv",
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "有節制"
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"roman": "yǒujiézhì",
"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "有节制"
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "검소한"
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "jeoljehaneun",
"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "절제하는"
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{
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "berežlívyj",
"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "бережли́вый"
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{
"code": "es",
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
"word": "abstemio"
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
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"sense": "sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation",
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"sense": "marked by, or spent in, abstinence",
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