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Subject: abstemious: Word of the Day
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Feb. 20, 2016

abstemious \ab-STEE-mee-uh s\ adjective 1. sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperate in diet. 2. characterized by abstinence: an abstemious life. Quotes Mr. Hall was no bon vivant: he was naturally an abstemious man, indifferent to luxury; but Boultby and Helstone both liked good cookery… -- Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, 1849 Origin Abstemious derives from the Latin tēmētum meaning "intoxicating drink." It entered English in the early 1600s.

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