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intemperance

Roget category 954

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#954. Intemperance

noun

intemperancesensuality, animalism, carnalitytragalismpleasureeffeminacy, silkinessluxury, luxuriousnesslap of pleasure, lap of luxuryfree living.
indulgencehigh living, wild living, inabstinence, self-indulgencevoluptuousness etc. adj. — epicurism, epicureanismsybaritismdrug habit.
dissipationlicentiousness etc. adj. — debaucherycrapulence.
revels, revelrydebauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgiesexcess, too much.
Circean cup.
[drugs of abuse: list] bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot [Coll.], hemp [Coll.], grass [Coll.]opium, cocaine, morphine, heroinLSD, lysergic acid diethylamide [Chem]phencyclidine, angel dust, PCP barbituratesamphetamines, speed [Coll.].

verb

be intemperate etc. adj. — indulge, exceedlive well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hoggive a loose to indulgence etc. n. — wallow in voluptuousness etc. n. — plunge into dissipation.
revelrake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oatsslake one's appetite, slake one's thirstswillpamper.

adjective

intemperate, inabstinentsensual, self-indulgentvoluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched.
brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish.
Paphian, Epicurean, Sybariticalbred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxuryindulged, pamperedfull-fed, high-fed.

phrase

being full of supper and distempering being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].

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