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 * Nephalism the true temperance of scripture, science, and experience., James Miller Glasgow : Scottish Temperance League (1861).

root of Greek word "nephalos," meaning "sobriety."

-- drinking, n. potation; tippling, bibacity, drunkenness, carousal, guzzling, intemperance. Antonyms: temperance nephalism, abstinence, teetotalism. Associated Words: bibacious, bibulous, bibitory, dipsomania, alcoholism thirst, nectar, hobnob, bacchanalian, inebriant, potatory, oenomania, symposium, crapulence, supernaculum convivial, conviviality, tankard, beaker, cup, stein, canteen.
 * 1) Miller, James, 1812-1864. Nephalism the true temperance of Scripture, science, and experience / by James Miller. -- Glasgow : Scottish Temperance League, 1861.
 * 2) RecordMiller, James, 1812-1864. The decree and commission of the Almighty appointing Jeremiah and his representatives the ministers of religion to intoxicate the nations [microform]. -- [Toronto? : s.n., 186-?]
 * 3) RecordMiller, James, 1812-1864. The forlorn hope [microform] : an appeal to the Church, on the impropriety of using fermented things in the sacrament / by James Miller. -- Toronto : Printed for the author, by J. Cleland, 1853.

drinking-bout, n. orgies, compotation, bacchanals, carousal revel, revelry, wassail, saturnalia, debauch, spree, excess, carouse, jollification.

-- Amazing thesaurus entry: encratism ?? “Encratites” (from Gk. enkrates, “self-disciplined”) denotes those Gnostics, Ebionites,* and Docetists that rejected wine, flesh, and often marriage. See also Apocrypha, C 3; Docetism; Gnosticism; Tatian.
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