Word Meanings - ABSTINENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence.

• Animalcule
  A small animal, as a fly, spider, etc.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Refraining
  of Refrain
• Animalculism
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Refrain
  To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
• Totality
  The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.
• Abstained
  of Abstain
• Animalculist
  One versed in the knowledge of animalcules.
• Callipers
  See Calipers.
• Customary
  Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
• Refrainer
  One who refrains.
• Totalize
  To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness.
• Abstaining
  of Abstain

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