| 单词 | temperance ship |
| 释义 | > as lemmastemperance ship C1. attributive usually, Pertaining to, practising, or advocating total abstinence, as temperance address, temperance association, temperance badge, temperance drink, temperance lecture, temperance man, temperance meeting, temperance movement, temperance reformation, temperance ship, temperance society, temperance work. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstinence society temperance association1831 temperance society1831 teetotal1834 Band of Hope1847 Good Templary1872 Blue Ribbon Army1877 W.C.T.U.1888 1831 (title) Report of the American Temperance Society. 1833 C. F. Hoffman Let. 26 Dec. in Winter in West (1835) I. 211 The most devout temperance man could see no harm in that! 1834 J. J. Strang Diary 1 July in M. M. Quaife Kingdom of St. James (1930) 219 I shall soon have to make the temperance address. 1836 J. Hume Speech House of Commons 24 Mar. There were perhaps many present, who were advocates of Temperance Societies. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxii. 351 The Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxi. 385 This was a ‘temperance ship’; and, like too many such ships, the temperance was all in the forecastle... The captain..can drink as much as he chooses. 1841 Cultivator VIII. 163 I witnessed..a very large temperance meeting at which I saw ‘female influence’ fully exerted in a most glorious cause. 1855 Zoologist 13 4681 Assisting Father Mathew in the temperance-movement. 1869 J. H. Browne Great Metropolis 327 A large number remain open, pretending to sell nothing but ‘temperance drinks’. 1881 I. M. Rittenhouse Maud (1939) 17 Went to the Temperance Meeting last night with Emma and Mabel. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) iii. 55 One of the best ‘temperance’ dining-places in London. 1890 W. Besant Demoniac v Captain and crew must be all temperance men: there is not to be one single drop of drink..put on board. 1890 J. D. Burns (title) Temperance History. 1902 O. Wister Virginian 454 Once I had to sleep in a room next a ladies' temperance meetin'. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 458 Bloom's bodyguard distribute..loaves and fishes, temperance badges, expensive Henry Clay cigars. 1933 E. O'Neill Ah, Wilderness! iv. iii. 153 I'm not going to read you any temperance lecture. < as lemmas |
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