nephalist

plural nephalists

1. obsoleteTemperance movementOne who practises nephalism; a teetotaller

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

   1883, James Miller, The dietetic reformer, and vegetarian messenger a monthly record of moral and physical progress volix third series, page 335

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   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.

   1881, The National Temperance League's annual, page 39

   [...] 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.

   1865, “Obituary: The Late Professor Miller”, in Edinburgh medical journal, Volume 10, Part 1, page 92