spareful

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Abstemious

   Abstemious; Lacking in appetite or vitality.

   • I admonish them, therefore, to be more spareful in their diet, and so they shall gain health to their bodies, and comfort to their purse.
   • She greeted him with the same kindly smile of twenty years before, with a thinner and more spareful expression, however, such as age takes on.
   • But how spareful persons he and his predecessors were and how greatly they abstained from all pleasures, even the place where they bare rule did witness, in the which at their departure very few houses were found beside the church ;
2. 2

   sparing

   sparing; chary.

   • Lucullus was a niggard of his meat, And spareful of his cups seem'd Anthony;
   • A good demand obtains for rosin, only limited by the spareful granting of licences.
   • “If you've got a dog, be spareful of the stuff or he'll leave home,” the youth called after him.
3. 3

   frugal.

   • The gamesome wind among her tresses plays. And curleth up those growing riches short; Her spareful eye to spread his beams denays, But keeps his shot where Cupid keeps his fort;

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