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Virtue :: Virtue (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc..

Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors..

Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..

Mediocrity :: Mediocrity (n.) Moderation; temperance.

Intemperance :: Intemperance (n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

Temperancy :: Temperancy (n.) Temperance.

Templar :: Templar (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars..

Temperateness :: Temperateness (n.) The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.

Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..

Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) Proceeding from temperance.

Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils..

Growth :: Growth (n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth..

Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge..

Acrasy :: Acrasy (n.) Excess; intemperance.

Debauchedness :: Debauchedness (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance.

Debilitate :: Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance..

Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.

Debauch :: Debauch (n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army..

Distemperance :: Distemperance (n.) Distemperature.

Washingtonian :: Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence..

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