Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
     teetotaler &c. 958; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite[obs3],
fruitarian[obs3], hydropot|!. 
     V. be temperate &c. adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself,
spare, swear off.
     know when one has had enough, know one’s limit.
     take the pledge, go on the wagon. 
     Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious,
abstinent; within compass; measured &c. (sufficient) 639.
     on the wagon, on the water wagon.
     [re locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry. 
Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal. 
     Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Lat][Cicero]; l’abstenir pour jouir
c’est l’epicurisme de la raison [Fr][Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque voluptas [Lat][Vergil].

     #954.  Intemperance. —­ N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism,
carnality; tragalism[obs3]; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.
     indulgence; high living, wild living, inabstinence[obs3], self-
indulgence; voluptuousness &c. adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit.
     dissipation; licentiousness &c. adj.; debauchery; crapulence[obs3].
     revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout,
wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. 
     Circean cup.
     [drugs of abuse:  list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [coll.], hemp
[coll.], grass [coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin; LSD[abbr], lysergic acid diethylamide[Chem][Chem]; phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [coll.]. 
     V. be intemperate &c. adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high,
live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog; give a loose to indulgence &c. n.; wallow in voluptuousness &c. n.; plunge into dissipation.
     revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one’s wild oats; slake one’s
appetite, slake one’s thirst; swill; pamper. 
     Adj. intemperate,inabstinent[obs3]; sensual, self-indulgent;
voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
     brutish, crapulous[obs3], swinish, piggish. 
     Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in
the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed. 
     Phr. “being full of supper and distempering draughts” [Othello].

#954a.  Sensualist. —­ N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine &c. 962; hedonist; tragalist[obs3].

     #955.  Asceticism. —­ N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism[obs3];
cynicism|!, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism[obs3].
     mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation; penance
&c. 952; fasting &c. 956; martyrdom.
     ascetic; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; martyr; Heautontimorumenos[obs3];
hermit &c. (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian[obs3], cynic, sanyasi[obs3], yogi. 
     Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious; acerbic.

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