English-Thai Dictionary

intemperance

N การทำตาม ใจ มากเกินไป  การ ไม่ รู้จัก ยับยั้งชั่งใจ  inebriety insobriety kan-tam-tam-jai-mak-koen-pai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INTEMPERANCE

n.[L. intemperantia.] 1. In a general sense, want of moderation or due restraint; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any exertion of body or mind, or any indulgence of appetites or passions which is injurious to the person or contrary to morality; as intemperance in study or in labor, in eating or drinking, or in any other gratification. Hence, appropriately and emphatically,
2. Habitual indulgence in drinking spirituous liquors, with or without intoxication.
Should a foreign army land on our shores, to levy such a tax upon us as intemperance levies--no mortal power could resist the swelling tide of indignation that would overwhelm it.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INTEMPERANCE

In *tem "per *ance, n. Etym: [F. intempérance, L. intemperantia. See In- not, and Temperance. ]

 

1. 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. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. Milton.

 

2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

intemperance

in tem per ance |inˈtemp (ə )rəns ɪnˈtempərəns | ▶noun lack of moderation or restraint: his occasional intemperance of tone. • excessive indulgence, esp. in alcohol.

 

Oxford Dictionary

intemperance

in |tem ¦per |ance |ɪnˈtɛmp (ə )r (ə )ns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] lack of moderation or restraint: his occasional intemperance of tone. • excessive indulgence, especially in alcohol.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

intemperance

intemperance noun 1 the friars were frequently criticized for personal intemperance: overindulgence, intemperateness, immoderation, lack of restraint, abandon, lack of self-control; excess, excessiveness, extravagance, prodigality, profligacy, lavishness; self-indulgence, self-gratification; debauchery, decadence, wantonness, dissipation, dissolution, dissoluteness. ANTONYMS moderation. 2 the Temperance Movement argued that intemperance was a disease: drinking, hard /heavy drinking, alcoholism, alcohol abuse, dipsomania; drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation, insobriety, tipsiness; rare inebriety, sottishness, bibulousness, crapulence. ANTONYMS temperance.

 

French Dictionary

intempérance

intempérance n. f. nom féminin vieux Manque de modération. Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le nom intempéries, mauvais temps.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

intemperance

in tem per ance /ɪntémp (ə )r (ə )ns /名詞 U ｟かたく ｠不節制, 暴飲 (暴食 ).