Teetotaler vs Nephalist - What's the difference?
teetotaler | nephalist |
(obsolete, Temperance movement) One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller
*{{quote-book, 1883, James Miller, The dietetic reformer, and vegetarian messegen a monthly record of moral and physical proess volix third series, page=335, pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZgQFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA335
, passage=Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.}}
*{{quote-book, 1881, , The National Temperance League's annual, page=39, pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=bgUFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA39
, passage=Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President — Heer JL de Jonge — described himself as a nephalist .}}
*1865 "Obituary: The Late Professor Miller," Edinburgh medical journal - Volume 10, Part 1,
As nouns the difference between teetotaler and nephalist
is that teetotaler is (us) a person who completely abstains from alcoholic beverages while nephalist is (obsolete|temperance movement) one who practises nephalism; a teetotaller.nephalist
English
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(en noun)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.
