INABSTINENCE
\ɪnˈabstɪnəns], \ɪnˈabstɪnəns], \ɪ_n_ˈa_b_s_t_ɪ_n_ə_n_s]\
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in-ab'sti-nens, n. want of abstinence.
By Thomas Davidson
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sir richard blackmore
- An English physician poet; born in Wiltshire about 1650; died 1729. Besides medical works, Scripture paraphrases, satirical verse, he wrote Popian couplets "Prince Arthur, a Heroic Poem"(1695), and voluminous religious epic, "The Creation"(1712), very successful much praised then, but not now read.