Word Meanings - TEETOTALER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Related words: (words related to TEETOTALER)

• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• ENTIRELY
  1. In an entire manner; wholly; completely; fully; as, the trace is entirely lost. Euphrates falls not entirely into the Persian Sea. Raleigh. 2. Without alloy or mixture; truly; sincerely. To highest God entirely pray. Spenser.
• PLEDGEOR; PLEDGOR
  One who pledges, or delivers anything in pledge; a pledger; -- opposed to Ant: pledgee. Note: This word analogically requires the e after g, but the spelling pledgor is perhaps commoner.
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• PLEDGELESS
  Having no pledge.
• PLEDGER
  One who pledges.
• INTOXICATE
  or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were 1. Intoxicated. 2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.
• INTOXICATION
  A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
• PLEDGEE
  The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledged is delivered.
• ENTIRETY
  1. The state of being entire; completeness; as, entirely of interest. Blackstone. 2. That which is entire; the whole. Bacon.
• ENTIRE
  entire; pref. in-, negative + the root of tangere to touch. See 1. Complete in all parts; undivided; undiminished; whole; full and perfect; not deficient; as, the entire control of a business; entire confidence, ignorance. That ye may be perfect
• ENTIRENESS
  1. The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench. 2. Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. Entireness in preaching the gospel.
• PLEDGET
  A string of oakum used in calking. (more info) 1. A small plug.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• INTOXICATING
  Producing intoxication; as, intoxicating liquors.
• ENTIRE-WHEAT
  Designating, made of, or relating to, flour including a considerable part of the bran.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.
• IMPLEDGE
  To pledge. Sir W. Scott.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• FRANKPLEDGE
  A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free