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Webster 1913 Edition

Frugal

Fru′gal

,
Adj.
[L.
frugalis
, fr.
frugi
, lit., for
fruit
; hence, fit for food, useful, proper, temperate, the dative of
frux
,
frugis
, fruit, akin to E.
fruit
: cf. F.
frugal
. See
Fruit
,
Noun.
]
1.
Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving;
as, a
frugal
housekeeper;
frugal
of time.
I oft admire
How Nature, wise and
frugal
, could commit
Such disproportions.
Milton.
2.
Obtained by, or appropriate to, economy;
as, a frugal fortune
.
“Frugal fare.”
Dryden.

Webster 1828 Edition

Frugal

FRU'GAL

,
Adj.
[L. frugalis. See Fruit.]
Economical in the use or appropriation of money, goods or provisions of any kind; saving unnecessary expense, either of money or of any thing else which is to be used or consumed; sparing; not profuse, prodigal or lavish. We ought to be frugal not only in the expenditure of money and of goods, but in the employment of time. It is followed by of, before the thing saved; as frugal of time. It is not synonymous with parsimonious, nor with thrifty, as now used.

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