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Abstinent :: Abstinent (n.) One who abstains.

Abstained :: Abstained (imp. & p. p.) of Abstai.

Continent :: Continent (a.) Abstaining from sexual intercourse; exercising restraint upon the sexual appetite; esp., abstaining from illicit sexual intercourse; chaste..

Abstention :: Abstention (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.

Encratite :: Encratite (n.) One of a sect in the 2d century who abstained from marriage, wine, and animal food; -- called also Continent..

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters..

Abstemious :: Abstemious (a.) Abstaining from wine.

Abstain :: Abstain (v. t.) To hinder; to withhold.

Abstaining :: Abstaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Abstai.

Faster :: Faster (n.) One who abstains from food.

Abstainer :: Abstainer (n.) One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence..

Refrain :: Refrain (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.

On :: On (prep.) At or in the time of; during; as, on Sunday we abstain from labor. See At (synonym)..

Rechabite :: Rechabite (n.) One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors..

Dehort :: Dehort (v. t.) To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade.

Forbear :: Forbear (v. t.) To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from; to give up; as, to forbear the use of a word of doubdtful propriety..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

Nazarite :: Nazarite (n.) A Jew bound by a vow to lave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively..

Abstinence :: Abstinence (n.) The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence..

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