Restrained or moderate indulgence;
as temperance in eating and drinking;
temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth.
Temperance in eating and drinking is opposed
to gluttony and drunkenness,
and in other indulgences, to excess.
{Webster’s 1828 Dictionary}
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