Nephalist Definition
noun
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.
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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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Noun
Singular:
nephalist
Plural:
nephalistsOrigin of Nephalist
From Ancient Greek νηφάλιος (nēphalios, “sober”), from νήφω (nēphō, “to be sober”)
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