Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
4. MORAL PRACTICE
1407 words | Chapter 193
#953. Temperance.—N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.
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forbearance, abnegation; self-denial, self-restraint, self-control
&c.
(resolution) 604.
frugality; vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence;
abstinence,
abstemiousness; Encratism[obs3], prohibition; system of Pythagoras,
system
of Cornaro; Pythagorism, Stoicism.
vegetarian; Pythagorean, gymnosophist[obs3].
teetotaler &c. 958; abstainer; designated driver; Encratite[obs3],
fruitarian[obs3], hydropot|!.
V. be temperate &c. adj.; abstain, forbear, refrain, deny oneself,
spare, swear off.
know when one has had enough, know one's limit.
take the pledge, go on the wagon.
Adj. temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing; abstemious,
abstinent; within compass; measured &c. (sufficient) 639.
on the wagon, on the water wagon.
[re locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry.
Pythagorean; vegetarian; teetotal.
Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Lat][Cicero]; l'abstenir pour
jouir
c'est l'epicurisme de la raison [Fr][Rousseau]; trahit sua quemque
voluptas
[Lat][Vergil].
#954. Intemperance.—N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism,
carnality; tragalism[obs3]; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury,
luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living. indulgence;
high living, wild living, inabstinence[obs3], self- indulgence;
voluptuousness &c. adj.; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug
habit. dissipation; licentiousness &c. adj.; debauchery;
crapulence[obs3]. revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification,
drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much. Circean
cup. [drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [coll.],
hemp [coll.], grass [coll.]; opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin;
LSD[abbr], lysergic acid diethylamide[Chem][Chem]; phencyclidine, angel
dust, PCP; barbiturates; amphetamines, speed [coll.]. V. be intemperate
&c. adj.; indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat
of the land, live it up, live high on the hog; give a loose to
indulgence &c. n.; wallow in voluptuousness &c. n.; plunge into
dissipation. revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats;
slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper. Adj.
intemperate,inabstinent[obs3]; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous,
luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous[obs3], swinish, piggish. Paphian, Epicurean,
Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury;
indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed. Phr. "being full of supper and
distempering draughts" [Othello].
#954a. Sensualist.—N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of
pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig,
hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus;
free liver, hard liver; libertine &c. 962; hedonist; tragalist[obs3].
#955. Asceticism.—N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism[obs3];
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cynicism|!, austerity; total abstinence; nephalism[obs3].
mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation;
penance
&c. 952; fasting &c. 956; martyrdom.
ascetic; anchoret[obs3], anchorite; martyr;
Heautontimorumenos[obs3];
hermit &c. (recluse) 893; puritan, sabbatarian[obs3], cynic,
sanyasi[obs3],
yogi.
Adj. ascetic, austere, puritanical; cynical; over-religious;
acerbic.
#956. Fasting.—N. fasting; xerophagy[obs3]; famishment, starvation.
fast, jour maigre[Fr]; fast day, banyan day; Lent,
quadragesima[obs3]; Ramadan, Ramazan; spare diet, meager diet;
lenten diet, lenten entertainment; soupe maigre[Fr], short
commons, Barmecide feast[obs3]; short rations. V. fast, starve,
clem|, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey[obs3];
make two bites of a cherry. Adj. lenten, quadragesimal[obs3];
unfed[obs3]; starved &c.v.; half- starved; fasting &c. v.; hungry
&c. 865.
#957. Gluttony.—N. gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c. adj.;
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voracity.
epicurism; good living, high living; edacity[obs3],
gulosity[obs3],
crapulence[obs3]; guttling[obs3], guzzling; pantophagy[obs3].
good cheer, blow out; feast &c. (food) 298; gastronomy, batterie
de
cuisine[Fr].
epicure, bon vivant, gourmand; glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god,
Apicius[obs3], gastronome; gourmet &c. 954a, 868.
v. gormandize, gorge; overgorge[obs3], overeat oneself; engorge,
eat
one's fill, cram, stuff; guttle[obs3], guzzle; bolt, devour, gobble up;
gulp &c. (swallow food) 298; raven, eat out of house and home.
have the stomach of an ostrich; play a good knife and fork &c.
(appetite) 865.
pamper.
Adj. gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing &c.v.; edacious[obs3],
omnivorous, crapulent[obs3], swinish.
avaricious &c. 819; selfish &c. 918.
pampered; overfed, overgorged[obs3].
Phr. jejunus raro stomachus vulgaria temnit [Lat][Horace].
#958. Sobriety.—N. sobriety; teetotalism.
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temperance &c. 953.
water-drinker; hydropot|!; prohibitionist; teetotaler,
teetotalist;
abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope.
V. take the pledge.
Adj. sober, sober as a judge.
#959. Drunkenness.—N. drunkenness &c. adj.; intemperance; drinking
&c. v.; inebriety[obs3], inebriation; ebriety[obs3], ebriosity[obs3];
insobriety; intoxication; temulency[obs3], bibacity[obs3], wine
bibbing; comtation[obs3], potation; deep potations, bacchanals,
bacchanalia, libations; bender* [U.S.]. oinomania[obs3], dipsomania;
delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu[Fr]. drink;
alcoholic drinks; blue ruin*, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup,
rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer &c. (beverage)
298; aguardiente[obs3]; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash
[U.S.]; chain lightning*, champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling[obs3];
highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.],
uisquebaugh[Irish], usquebaugh, whisky, xeres[obs3]. drunkard, sot,
toper, tippler, bibber[obs3], wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin
drinker, dram drinker; soaker*, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot;
thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian;
Bacchal[obs3], Bacchante[obs3]; devotee to Bacchus[obs3]; bum* [U.S.],
guzzler, tavern haunter. V. get drunk, be drunk &c. adj.; see double;
take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope,
booze, bouse[Fr], guzzle, swill*, soak*, sot, bum* [U.S.], besot, have
a jag on, have a buzz on, lush*, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the
shrine of Bacchus[obs3]; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep,
drink like a fish; have one's swill*, drain the cup, splice the main
brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you. liquor, liquor up; wet
one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off
&c. (drink up) 2198; go to the alehouse, go to the public house. make
one drunk &c. adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle[obs3], get into
one's head. Adj. drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious[obs3], inebriate,
inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication &c.n.;
temulent[obs3], temulentive[obs3]; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow,
cut, boozy, fou[obs3], fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised,
groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant[obs3], glorious; potulent|;
squiffy*[obs3]; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed*, tight, primed,
corned, raddled[obs3], sewed up*, lushy*[obs3], nappy[obs3], muddled,
muzzy[obs3], obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous[obs3], dead drunk.
woozy[1][slightly drunk], buzzed, flush, flushed. inter pocula[obs3];
in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas
over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the
table. drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a
fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk
as a wheelbarrow. drunken, bibacious[obs3], sottish; given to drink,
addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping &c.v. Phr. nunc est
bibendum[Lat]; "Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]; "drink down all
unkindness" [Merry Wives]; "O that men should put an enemy in their
mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello].
#960. Purity.—N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence,
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chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity[obs3],
pucelage[obs3],
virginity.
vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus; Lucretia, Diana; prude.
Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous;
virginibus
puerisque[Lat]; simon-pure; chaste, continent, virtuous, honest,
Platonic.
virgin, unsullied; cherry [coll.].
Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]; "a soul as white as
heaven" [Beaumonth & Fl.]; "'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity"
[Milton];
"to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley].
#961. Impurity.—N. impurity; uncleanness &c. (filth) 653;
immodesty; grossness &c. adj.; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity[obs3];
obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry[obs3], double entente,
equivoque[Fr]. concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity;
pruriency, lechery, lasciviency[obs3], lubricity; Sadism,
sapphism[obs3]. incontinence, intrigue, faux pas[Fr]; amour,
amourette[obs3]; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish[obs3],
libertinage[obs3], fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation.
seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest.
prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration[obs3], whoredom,
concubinage, cuckoldom[obs3], adultery, advoutry[obs3], crim[abbr].
con.; free love. seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio[obs3], stew,
bawdyhouse[obs3], cat house, lupanar[obs3], house of ill fame,
bordel[obs3], bordello. V. be impure &c. adj.; intrigue; debauch,
defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery
&c.n. Adj. impure; unclean &c. (dirty) 653; not to be mentioned to ears
polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent;
Fescennine; loose, risque [French], coarse, gross, broad, free,
equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.
concupiscent, prurient, lickerish[obs3], rampant, lustful; carnal,
carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic,
ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty.
unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose
character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish[obs3], incontinent,
meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should
be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose. adulterous,
incestuous, bestial.
#962. Libertine.—N. libertine; voluptuary &c. 954a; rake,
debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell[obs3], fast man; intrigant[obs3],
gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger,
paillard[obs3], adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan,
Bluebeard[obs3]; chartered libertine. adulteress, advoutress[obs3],
courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk, fille de
joie[Fr]; woman, woman of the town; streetwalker, Cyprian, miss,
piece[Fr]; frail sisterhood; demirep, wench, trollop, trull[obs3],
baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean[obs3], mopsy[obs3],
slut, minx, harridan; unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate
woman; woman of easy virtue &c. (unchaste) 961; wanton,
fornicatress[obs3]; Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne,
Aspasia[obs3], Lais, lorette[obs3], cocotte[obs3], petite dame,
grisette[obs3]; demimonde; chippy* [obs3][U.S.]; sapphist[obs3];
spiritual wife; white slave. concubine, mistress, doxy[obs3], chere
amie[Fr], bona roba[It]. pimp, procurer; pander, pandar[obs3]; bawd,
conciliatrix[obs3], procuress[obs3], mackerel, wittol|.
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