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pledge " to abstain from all intoxicating liquors (see TEMPERANCE). There seems no doubt that the word, whatever its actual origin, is a strengthened form of " total," probably influenced by " See also:

TEETOTUM

teetotum " (q.v.). Ac-cording to the See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

Century See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary, the secretary of a New See also:

York temperance society introduced a total abstinence pledge among its members, who were thus divided into those who had taken the old pledge, the O.P.'s, to abstain from spirituous liquors, and the T.'s, who had taken the new or total pledge. The See also:

ENGLISH

English version, taken from the See also:

account by See also:

Joseph Livesey in the Staunch Teetotaler, See also:

JANUARY

January 1867, is that one See also:

Richard See also:

Turner, a See also:

Preston See also:

ARTISAN, or ARTIZAN

artisan and popular temperance See also:

SPEAKER

speaker, declared at a See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting about 1833, that " nothing but tee-teetotal would do." This repetition of the initial See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter does not appear to have been due to his See also:

STAMMERING, or STUTTERING

stammering but to have been a See also:

mere emphasis on the word. The expression seems to have obtained instant recognition and popularity. Both versions are apparently See also:

AUTHENTIC (from Gr. aOO 'rns, one who does a thing himself)

authentic, and there seems no See also:

REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason to suppose that they are not See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent.

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