adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an abstemious manner; sparingly, temperately.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Spleen, If the obstruction of the Spleen proceeds from … having lived a little abstemiously.

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1794.  Sullivan, View of Nat., II. 358. There are many monastical persons, who live abstemiously all their lives.

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