Virati: the 3 'abstentions' or abstinences, are: abstention from wrong speech, wrong bodily action and wrong livelihood; corresponding to right speech, action and livelihood of the 8-fold path. By abstention is not simply meant the non-occurrence of the evil things in question, but the deliberate abstaining therefrom, whenever occasion arises. They belong to the 'secondary' not constant mental concomitants obtaining in lofty consciousness.
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Maha Thera Nyanatiloka. Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, Buddhist Publication Society, first edition 1952.