is properly understood of a person who refrains absolutely from all use of wine.

The history of Mr Wood, in the Medic. Trans. vol. ii. p. 261, art. 18, is a very remarkable exemplification of the very beneficial alterations which may be effected on the human body by a strict course of abstinence.

The Roman ladies, in the first ages of the republic, were all enjoined to abstemious; and that it might appear, by their breath, whether or no they kept up to the injunction, it was one of the laws of the Roman civility, that they should kiss their friends and relations whenever they accosted them.