| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers | | Section IV. Moral Affections | | 4. Moral Practice |
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| 953. Temperance. |
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| NOUN: | TEMPERANCE, moderation, sobriety, soberness.
forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control (resolution) [See Resolution].
ABSTINENCE, abstemiousness, asceticism; Encratism, prohibition; frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence; system of -Pythagoras, - Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.
ABSTAINER, Pythagorean, gymnosophist; nephalist, teetotaler [See Sobriety]; Encratite, vegetarian, fruitarian, hydropot [rare]; ascetic [See Churchdom].
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| VERB: | BE TEMPERATE &c. adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, spare; know when one has had enough; take the pledge; prohibit; control the -old Adam, - carnal man, - fleshly lusts; refrain from indulgence, look not upon the wine when it is red.
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| ADJECTIVE: | TEMPERATE, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing, abstemious, abstinent; within compass; measured (sufficient) [See Sufficiency].
Pythagorean; vegetarian, fruitarian; teetotal.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Appetitus rationi obediant.—Cicero
- L’abstenir pour jouir c’est l épicurisme de la raison.—Rousseau
- Trahit sua quemque voluptas.—Vergil
- Feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze.—Milton
- Holy dictate of spare Temperance.—Milton
- At rich men’s tables eaten bread and pulse.—Emerson
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