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self-control (medicine) and peplos (iou)


self-control (medicine)


self-control


1. Self-regulation of one's behaviour in accordance with personal beliefs, goals, attitudes and societal expectations.

2. Use by an individual of active coping strategies to deal with problem situations, in contrast to passive conditioning strategies which do things to the individual and require no action by the person.


peplos (iou)



peplos noun. , -ploses. L18.
[Greek.]
Greek Antiquities. A (usu. rich) outer robe or shawl worn by women in ancient Greece, hanging in loose folds and sometimes drawn over the head; spec. the one woven for the statue of the goddess Athene at Athens, and carried in procession to her temple at the greater Panathenaea.