Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
intemperance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Intemperance.
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- noun Obsolete form of
intemperance .
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Examples
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Monsieur de Lionee who hath confessed since that he can find no ground for this pretended attempting to the King's life, and that upon the whole he was of opinion that this man had much better been left alone than taken, and did look upon what he had done as the intemperancy of an ill-settled braine.
The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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Rondibilis, that wine abateth lust, my meaning is, wine immoderately taken; for by intemperancy proceeding from the excessive drinking of strong liquor there is brought upon the body of such a swill-down boozer a chillness in the blood, a slackening in the sinews, a dissipation of the generative seed, a numbness and hebetation of the senses, with a perversive wryness and convulsion of the muscles — all which are great lets and impediments to the act of generation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Rondibilis, that wine abateth lust, my meaning is, wine immoderately taken; for by intemperancy proceeding from the excessive drinking of strong liquor there is brought upon the body of such a swill-down boozer a chillness in the blood, a slackening in the sinews, a dissipation of the generative seed, a numbness and hebetation of the senses, with a perversive wryness and convulsion of the muscles — all which are great lets and impediments to the act of generation.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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When I say, quoth Rondibilis, that wine abateth lust, my meaning is, wine immoderately taken; for by intemperancy proceeding from the excessive drinking of strong liquor there is brought upon the body of such a swill-down boozer a chillness in the blood, a slackening in the sinews, a dissipation of the generative seed, a numbness and hebetation of the senses, with a perversive wryness and convulsion of the muscles -- all which are great lets and impediments to the act of generation.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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