Usually means: Eating and drinking in moderation.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word abstemious:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. abstemious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abstemious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abstemious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abstemious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abstemious: Vocabulary.com
  6. abstemious: Wordnik
  7. abstemious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abstemious: Wiktionary
  9. abstemious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abstemious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abstemious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Abstemious, abstemious: Dictionary.com
  13. abstemious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Abstemious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abstemious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abstemious: Rhymezone
  17. abstemious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abstemious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abstemious: Free Dictionary
  20. abstemious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abstemious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. abstemious: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. abstemious: Legal dictionary

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  1. abstemious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Abstemious: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. Abstemious: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abstemious: A Word A Day
  2. abstemious: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abstemious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.
adjective:  Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
adjective:  Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
adjective:  Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
adjective:  (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.

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