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.


