{"def":{"short":"to exercise self-restraint (in diet and chastity)","long":["to be self-controlled, continent",["to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately","in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and sexual indulgence"]]},"deriv":"middle voice from G1468","pronun":{"ipa":"ɛŋ.krɑˈtɛβ.o.mɛ","ipa_mod":"e̞ŋ.krɑˈtev.ow.me","sbl":"enkrateuomai","dic":"eng-kra-TEV-oh-meh","dic_mod":"ayng-kra-TAVE-oh-may"},"see":["G1468"]}