Classes Sentient and Moral Powers Moral Affections Moral Practice
Moral Practice
Nouns
temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness. forbearance, abnegation
self-denial, self-restraint, self-control etc. (resolution) Resolution . frugality
vegetarianism, teetotalism, total abstinence
abstinence, abstemiousness
Encratism, prohibition
system of Pythagoras, system of Cornaro
Pythagorism, Stoicism. vegetarian
Pythagorean, gymnosophist. teetotaler etc. Sobriety
abstainer
designated driver
Encratite, fruitarian, hydropot.
Verbs
be temperate etc. 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.
Adjectives
temperate, moderate, sober, frugal, sparing
abstemious, abstinent
within compass
measured etc. (sufficient) Sufficiency . on the wagon, on the water wagon. [Locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry. Pythagorean
vegetarian
teetotal.
Phrases
l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la l'abstenir pour jouir c'est l'epicurisme de la raison [Rousseau]
Nouns
intemperance
sensuality, animalism, carnality
tragalism
pleasure
effeminacy, silkiness
luxury, luxuriousness
lap of pleasure, lap of luxury
free living. indulgence
high living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgence
voluptuousness etc. adj.
epicurism, epicureanism
sybaritism
drug habit. dissipation
licentiousness etc. adj.
debauchery
crapulence. 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, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]
phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP
barbiturates
amphetamines, speed [Coll.] .
Verbs
be intemperate etc. 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 etc. n.
wallow in voluptuousness etc. 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.
Adjectives
intemperate, inabstinent
sensual, self-indulgent
voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched. brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish. Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical
bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury
indulged, pampered
full-fed, high-fed.
Phrases
being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello] .
Nouns
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 etc. Libertine
hedonist
tragalist.
Nouns
asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism
cynicism, austerity
total abstinence
nephalism. mortification, maceration, sackcloth and ashes, flagellation
penance etc. Atonement
fasting etc. Fasting
martyrdom. ascetic
anchoret, anchorite
martyr
Heautontimorumenos
hermit etc. (recluse) Seclusion. Exclusion
puritan, sabbatarian, cynic, sanyasi, yogi.
Adjectives
ascetic, austere, puritanical
cynical
over-religious
acerbic.
Nouns
fasting
xerophagy
famishment, starvation. fast
fast day, banyan day
Lent, quadragesima
Ramadan, Ramazan
spare diet, meager diet
lenten diet, lenten entertainment
short commons, Barmecide feast
short rations.
Verbs
fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger
dine with Duke Humphrey
make two bites of a cherry.
Adjectives
lenten, quadragesimal
unfed
starved etc. v.
half-starved
fasting etc. v.
hungry etc. Desire .
Nouns
gluttony
greed, avarice
greediness etc. adj.
voracity. epicurism
good living, high living
edacity, gulosity, crapulence
guttling, guzzling
pantophagy. good cheer, blow out
feast etc. (food) [Eating.] Food
gastronomy, bon vivant, gourmand
glutton, cormorant, hog, belly god, Apicius, gastronome
gourmet etc. Intemperance .Existence , Fastidiousness . v.. gormandize, gorge
overgorge, overeat oneself
engorge, eat one's fill, cram, stuff
guttle, guzzle
bolt, devour, gobble up
gulp etc. (swallow food) [Eating.] Food
raven, eat out of house and home. have the stomach of an ostrich
play a good knife and fork etc. (appetite) Desire . pamper.
Adjectives
gluttonous, greedy
gormandizing etc. v.
edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish. avaricious etc. Parsimony
selfish etc. Forgiveness . pampered
overfed, overgorged.
Nouns
sobriety
teetotalism. temperance etc. Temperance . water-drinker
hydropot
prohibitionist
teetotaler, teetotalist
abstainer, Good Templar, band of hope.
Nouns
drunkenness etc. adj.
intemperance
drinking etc. v.
inebriety, inebriation
ebriety, ebriosity
insobriety
intoxication
temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing
comtation, potation
deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations
bender [U.S.] . oinomania, dipsomania
delirium tremens
alcohol, alcoholism
alcoholic drinks
blue ruin [Slang] , grog, port wine
punch, punch bowl
cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl
drop, drop too much
dram
beer etc. (beverage) [Eating.] Food
aguardiente
apple brandy, applejack
brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]
chain lightning [Slang] , champagne, cocktail
gin, ginsling
highball [U.S.] , peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.] , sherry, sling [U.S.] , uisquebaugh [Ire.] , usquebaugh [Scot.] , whisky, xeres. drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush
hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker
soaker [Slang] , sponge, tun
love pot, toss pot
thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian
Bacchal, Bacchante
devotee to Bacchus
bum [U.S.] , guzzler, tavern haunter.
Verbs
get drunk, be drunk etc. adj.
see double
take a drop too much, take a glass too much
drink
tipple, tope, booze, guzzle, swill [Slang] , soak [Slang] , sot, bum [U.S.] , besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang] , bib, swig, carouse
sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus
take to drinking
drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish
have one's swill [Slang] , 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 etc. (drink up) [Eating.] Food
go to the alehouse, go to the public house. make one drunk etc. adj.
inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
Adjectives
drunk, tipsy
intoxicated
inebrious, inebriate, inebriated
in one's cups
in a state of intoxication etc. n.
temulent, temulentive
bombed, smashed
fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated
flustered, disguised, groggy, beery
top-heavy
potvaliant, glorious
potulent
squiffy [Slang]
overcome, overtaken
whittled, screwed [Slang] , tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up [Slang] , lushy [Slang] , nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin
crapulous, dead drunk. woozy [slightly drunk] , buzzed, flush, flushed. inter pocula
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, sottish
given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle
toping etc. v..
Phrases
Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]
drink down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]
O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello] .
Nouns
purity
decency, decorum, delicacy
continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame
pudicity, pucelage, virginity. vestal, virgin, Joseph, Hippolytus
Lucretia, Diana
prude.
Adjectives
pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous
simon-pure
chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, Platonic. virgin, unsullied
cherry [Coll.] .
Phrases
as chaste as unsunn'd snow" [Cymbeline]
a soul as white as heaven" [Beaumont and Fletcher]
'tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity" [Milton]
to the pure all things are pure" [Shelley] .
Nouns
impurity
uncleanness etc. (filth) Uncleanness
immodesty
grossness etc. adj.
indelicacy, indecency
impudicity
obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity
pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity
Sadism, sapphism. incontinence, intrigue
amour, amourette
gallantry
debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication
liaison
wenching, venery, dissipation. seduction
defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape
incest. prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim. con.
free love. seraglio, harem
brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello.
Verbs
be impure etc. adj.
intrigue
debauch, defile, seduce
prostitute
abuse, violate, deflower
commit adultery etc. n..
Adjectives
impure
unclean etc. (dirty) Uncleanness
not to be mentioned to ears polite
immodest, shameless
indecorous, indelicate, indecent
Fescennine
loose, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic. concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, 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, 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.
Nouns
libertine
voluptuary etc. Intemperance .Existence
rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell, fast man
intrigant, gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard, adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard
chartered libertine. adulteress, advoutress, courtesan, prostitute, strumpet, harlot, whore, punk
woman, woman of the town
streetwalker, Cyprian, miss
frail sisterhood
demirep, wench, trollop, trull, baggage, hussy, drab, bitch, jade, skit, rig, quean, mopsy, slut, minx, harridan
unfortunate, unfortunate female, unfortunate woman
woman of easy virtue etc. (unchaste) Impurity
wanton, fornicatress
Jezebel, Messalina, Delilah, Thais, Phryne, Aspasia, Lais, lorette, cocotte, petite dame, grisette
demimonde
chippy [U.S.]
sapphist
spiritual wife
white slave. concubine, mistress, doxy, procurer
pander, pandar
bawd, conciliatrix, procuress, mackerel, wittol.