abstinent Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
    abstainer; nondrinker.
  2. adjective satellite self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
    abstentious.
    • not totally abstinent but abstemious

WordNet

Ab"sti*nent adjective
Etymology
F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr. of abstinere. See Abstain.
Definitions
  1. Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. Beau. & Fl.
Ab"sti*nent noun
Definitions
  1. One who abstains.
  2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

Webster 1913