English

Noun

nephalist ‎(plural nephalists)

1. (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 JL de Jonge — described himself as a nephalist.

   • 1865 "Obituary: The Late Professor Miller," Edinburgh medical journal - Volume 10, Part 1, 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.

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