abstemious

adjective5

1. •
   Refraining from freely consuming food or strong drink; sparing in diet; abstinent, temperate.

   • Under his special eie / Abstemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightiest deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Against the uncircumcis'd, our enemies. — 1671
2. •
   Sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

   • The Ms had an abstemious sex life; in fourteen years of marriage, they had had sex exactly six times. Mrs. M desired sex and more children, but her husband refused. — 2010
3. •
   Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
4. •
   Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.

   • If yet Achilles have a Friend, whose Care / Is bent to please him; this Request forbear: / Till yonder Sun descend, ah let me pay / To Grief and Anguish one abstemious Day. — 1720
5. •
   (rare) Promotive of abstemiousness.

   • But stranger Virtues yet in Streams we find, / Some change not only Bodies, but the Mind: / […] Clytorian Streams the love of Wine expel, / (Such is the virtue of th' abstemious Well;) […] — 1700