- (a.) Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
- (n.) One who abstains.
- (n.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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