VI. WORDS RELATING TO THE SENTIMENT AND MORAL POWERS

IV. MORAL AFFECTIONS

4. Moral practice

Temperance.

[Antonyms: intemperance.]

[Nouns] temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.

forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control (resolution) [more].

frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; abstinence, abstemiousness; Encratism, prohibition; system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.

vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist.

teetotaler [more]; abstainer; Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot.

[Verbs] be temperate; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare.

know when one has had enough.

take the pledge.

[Adjectives] temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured (sufficient) [more].

Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.

[Phrases] appetitus rationi obediant [Cic.]; l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la raison [Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Vergil].