Meanings (ES + gloss)
abstemio • sobrio
Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
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 immediate…
[…] I, abstemious naturally, and rendered so by the fever that preyed on me, was forced to recruit myself with food.
abstemio
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
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 gen…
abstemio
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
an abstemious life
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