abstemiously

How To Use abstemiously In A Sentence

• Koran: -- '_Eat ye and drink ye, but not to an excess_:' -- eat not so voraciously that the food shall be regorged from thy mouth, nor so abstemiously that from depletion life shall desert thee: -- though food be the means of preserving breath in the body. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
• Our word jealousies contains all the vowels, though three of them only were necessary; nevertheless in the two words abstemiously and facetiously the vowels exist all of them in their usual order, and are pronounced in their most usual manner. The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes
• he ate and drank abstemiously