nephalist
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek νηφάλιος (nēphálios, “sober”), from νήφω (nḗphō, “to be sober”).
Noun edit
nephalist (plural nephalists)
- (obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
- 1883, James Miller, The dietetic reformer, and vegetarian messegen a monthly record of moral and physical proess volix third series, page 335:
- Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.
- 1881, The National Temperance League's annual, page 39:
- Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.
- 1865, “Obituary: The Late Professor Miller”, in Edinburgh medical journal, Volume 10, Part 1, page 92:
- [...] but he was at the same time so zealous and scrupulously honest a nephalist, as he called himself, that he immediately gave up the use of wine when the distinctness of the need for it became obscured.