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Teetotal

adjective

Practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages. Synonym: dry. "No thank you; I happen to be teetotal"

verb

Practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

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"Teetotal" Quotes from Famous Books

... Bellingham, being a border town, was in danger of a raid. The Dorrites did, in fact, advance as far as Crook's Tavern on the southern boundary of the town, where, having drunk up what rum they could find, and hearing that the other tavern in the center of the town was kept on teetotal principles, they at once retreated. Not, however, before an alarm had been rung out by the church bell and the militia company called to arms. Great was the fright of the women and children. There was no sleeping in any house, no working and little ...

— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee

... the givers—whether individuals or Governments—might be employing money drawn from the same purse in other directions. 'Ought I,' said Chalmers in reference to the Educational question, 'ought I not to use, on teetotal principles, the water of the public pump, because another man mixes it with his toddy?' It was not because Popery was established in the colonies, or seemed in danger of being established in Ireland, that the Free Church resigned its hold of the temporalities ...

— Leading Articles on Various Subjects • Hugh Miller

... holding the door open for his passage, "I come back to you licked. Your daughter absolutely declines even to consider the proposition I put before her. As a plenipotentiary extraordinary I admit I'm a teetotal failure. I ...

— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... him and his head drooped against Luigi's and he went to sleep. Luigi apologized for him, and was going on to improve his opportunity with an appeal for a moderation of what he called "the prevailing teetotal madness," but persons in the audience began to howl and throw things at him, and then the meeting rose in wrath ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... comes it, Captain, that you plead so earnestly for total abstinence?" asked Jackman with a smile. "Have I not heard you defend the idea of moderate drinking, although you consented to sail in a teetotal yacht?" ...

— The Eagle Cliff • R.M. Ballantyne

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