non-alcoholicadj.n.

1857 E. Nott Lect. Temperance 118 They do not speak of the good and bad wine of the Bible as alcoholic and non-alcoholic, nor as fermented and unfermented, but as intoxicating and unintoxicating.

1870 Proc. Royal Soc. 19 88 The perspiration may at times contain some non-alcoholic substance capable of reducing the bichromate.

1897 F. H. Wines & J. Koren Liquor Probl. 21 The substitution of non-alcoholic drinks for intoxicants as refreshments or means of ready hospitality.

1938 Life 6 June 68/3 They..consumed generous portions of ice cream, cake, and nonalcoholic punch.

1966 B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 58 There he was..nursing a glass of non-alcoholic, fizzy liquid.

1991 Pract. Health Jan. 25/3 If you're giving a party, have lots of non-alcoholic drinks available.

1907 A. R. Diefendorf Clin. Psychiatry (ed. 2) 169 The rate of mortality of the children of alcoholic mothers is twice as great during the first two years of life as of non-alcoholic mothers.

1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 18 Apr. 869/2 Nonalcoholic people are not less susceptible than alcoholic patients to the injurious effects of alcohol.

1990 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 96/2 Nonalcoholic subjects reported only occasional consumption of alcohol.

1910 E. E. Southard in W. Osler & T. McCrae Syst. Med. VII. xiii. 631 The non-alcoholic and the alcoholic forms of Wernicke's disease are considered.

1970 Jrnl. Neurol. Sci. 11 17 (title) The neurology of non-alcoholic pancreatic diabetes mellitus in Nigerians.

2002 Gastroenterology 122 274 The occurrence of steatohepatitis in 99 patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver.

1940 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 5 548 The basis of distinction between the alcoholic and the nonalcoholic was the fact that chronic drinking of the alcoholic constituted a part of his pattern of social maladjustment.

1949 M. Mead Male & Female 449 The non-alcoholic cannot afford to be reminded of this.

1992 Sci. Amer. Apr. 16/2 As early as the 1970s, studies had shown that children of alcoholics—particularly sons of alcoholic fathers—who were adopted by nonalcoholics run a higher risk of becoming alcoholics than do their step-siblings.