0 avoiding things that give pleasure but may be bad for you, for example eating too much or drinking alcohol: --
He performed his duties assiduously and lived abstemiously.
Smith celebrated abstemiously with two of his closest friends.
If one exercises thus freely and eats abstemiously he ought not to lay on fat.
He eats alone and very abstemiously.
He rises early, lives abstemiously and works until far into the night.
Stimulants and narcotics never act so quickly upon persons accustomed to use spirits freely as upon those who live abstemiously.
He lived abstemiously and worked incessantly, literally day and night.
Never could my abstemiously inclined forebear have guessed what fortunes were entwined with the humble cocoa bean, although it seemed full of promise: a touch of the exotic.
The author defines the middle class abstemiously, as those who spend $3 -10 a day.
The thought is enough to drive you to drink but Alison soldiers abstemiously on.
