Both Uses of
abstemious
in
Middlemarch
- Mr. Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence.†
Chpt 5 *
- It was ill-chosen; for Mr. Brooke was an abstemious man, and to drink a second glass of sherry quickly at no great interval from the first was a surprise to his system which tended to scatter his energies instead of collecting them.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(abstemious) not doing too much of something such as eating or drinking