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| Rech·a·bite [ rékə bt ] (plural Rech·a·bites) |
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U.K. abstainer from alcohol: somebody who abstains from alcoholic beverages, especially a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a benefit society founded in 1835
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| [14th century. < ecclesiastical Latin Rechabita "descendants of Rechab," translation of Hebrew rēkāḇīm< rēkāḇ "Rechab," in the Bible, ancestor of an Israelite family who refused to drink wine (Jeremiah 35:6)] |
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