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abstemiously

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ab·ste·mi·ous  (b-stm-s, b-)
adj.
1. Eating and drinking in moderation.
2. Characterized by abstinence or moderation: The hermit led an abstemious way of life.
[From Latin abstmius : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + *tmum, liquor, variant of tmtum.]
ab·stemi·ous·ly adv.
ab·stemi·ous·ness n.
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Adv.1.abstemiously - in a sparing manner; without overindulgence; "he ate and drank abstemiously"; "indulged temperately in cocktails"
temperately


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As wage slaves, toiling early and late, and living abstemiously, we could not save in threescore years--nor in twenty times threescore years--a sum of money sufficient successfully to cope with the great aggregations of massed capital which now exist.
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