Meaning of nephalist | Babel Free

Definitions

One who practises nephalism; a teetotaller

obsolete

Examples

“Our JH Andrews, a nephalist and vegetist of lifelong standing.”

“Side by side with the teetotal society, there is, at the Hague, a Neerlandish Society for the Prohibition of Strong Drinks, whose President—Heer J. L. de Jonge—described himself as a nephalist.”

“[...] 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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