NOT HAVEcareful not to have too much food, drink etc 〔饮食等〕有节制的
—abstemiousness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
abstemious• The T'ang was usually abstemious, but tonight his mood seemed different.• Ken, meanwhile, was living a more abstemiousexistence on stage.• But such people are abstemious in many other ways, e.g. they do not drink tea.• I try to be a reasonably abstemiousindividual.• Archibald is moved by the inappropriateness of the gift; he is known as the most abstemious man around.• Gallstones he'd had and, though an abstemious man, gout.• In some ways, Livesey seems to have led an abstemious, not to say ascetic life.
Originabstemious
(1600-1700)Latinabstemius, from abs-“away” + temetum“strong drink”