0 not doing things that give you pleasure, especially not eating good food or drinking alcohol -- （尤指對美食或飲酒）有節制的；戒絕的
His choice of breakfast foods became more abstemious and of wine more that of an oenophile.
Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.
I am not concerned here either to work out a complete view of what law must necessarily do or to defend my abstemious suggestions.
That set of claims about what law necessarily does strikes me, incidentally, as ver y abstemious.
The considerable lower divorce risks experienced by moderate drinkers (as compared with their more abstemious counterparts) are apparent only at higher marriage durations.
Territorials are, of course, extremely abstemious people, but after a spell in the drill hall they sometimes like to have a pint of beer.
There is no point in being abstemious if one is going to lose badly.
One can drink a bottle of light wine to one glass of port and it is more abstemious to drink port in those circumstances.
