unteetotal

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1. Not teetotal.

   “Unchristian Teetotalers and Unteetotal Christians.”

   1888 November 30, The Christian: […], number 983, London: Morgan & Scott, […], page 9

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   Without the mopuses to pay for your call, the demand will be like Owen Glendower’s very unteetotal demand for “spirits from the vasty deep,” which, to the disappointment of thirsty souls in all time to come, most notoriously failed in producing the supply.

   1840 November, “Something Mysterious”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume LX, number CCXXXIX, page 373

   In fact water was as little liked for the inside as for the outside, or else how could they venture to perpetrate the unteetotal declaration, “Water breeds frogs in the belly, but wine kills worms.”

   1869 July 17, “English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases. […]”, in The Examiner and London Review, number 3,207, page 455, column 1

   Mr. Clark breathed on Mr. Tridge a final cheery but unteetotal wish for his good luck; […]

   1923, F[rancis] Morton Howard, “A Matter of Advertisement”, in “Strictly Business”, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, […], page 120

   He is middle-aged, of unteetotal aspect, and wears brown overalls.

   1937, George Shiels, “The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three Acts”, in The Passing Day: A Play in Six Scenes & The Jailbird: A Comedy in Three Acts, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, […], act I, scene I, page 150

   On these occasions, too, he would often come out with the most unteetotal quotations from his favourite Omar, about taking the daughter of the vine to spouse, or being merry with the fruitful grape,—“Only it isn’t the Grape, of course,” he would add hurriedly.

   1954, John Moore, The White Sparrow, London; New York, N.Y.; Sydney, N.S.W.; Toronto, Ont.: White Lion Publishers Limited, published 1975, →ISBN, page 84