Meaning of ABSTINENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'abstinunt
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- [n] a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
- [adj] self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious"
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| | Synonyms: | | abstainer, abstemious, abstentious, nondrinker |
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| | See Also: | | human, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, teetotaler, teetotalist, teetotaller | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Ab"sti*nent\, a. [F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr.
of abstinere. See {Abstain}.]
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of
appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. --Beau. & Fl.
\Ab"sti*nent\, n.
1. One who abstains.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect who appeared in France and
Spain in the 3d century.
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