noun. Lack of temperance, as in the indulgence of an appetite or a passion.

noun. Excessive use of alcoholic beverages.

noun. The quality of being intemperate; lack of temperance or moderation; immoderateness or excess in any kind of action; excessive indulgence of any passion or appetite.

noun. In a restricted sense, excessive indulgence in intoxicating drink; habitual lack of temperance in drink, with or without actual drunkenness.

noun. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.

noun. Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

noun. Lack of moderation or temperance; excess

noun. Drunkenness; gluttony

noun. the quality of being intemperate

noun. excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence

noun. consumption of alcoholic drinks

"_On the contrary, _ The Philosopher says (Ethic. iii, 12) that "we apply the term intemperance* to childish faults.""

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