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adjective

ascetical adj.

Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic "Ascetical practices"

Synonyms: ascetic

Practicing great self-denial.

Synonyms: ascetic, austere, spartan "Be systematically ascetic... do... something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it."

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Etymology of 'Ascetical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ascetical" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his career to the ordinary customs of his easy-going age, he would have presented no problem to the scientific mind. After consuming the fuel of the passions, he might have subsided into common calm, or have blunted the edge of inspiration, or have finished in some phase of madness or ascetical repentance. Such are the common categories of extinct volcanic temperaments. But the essential point about Michelangelo is that he never burned out, and never lost his manly independence, in spite of numerous nervous disadvantages. That makes him the unparalleled personality he is, as now ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... jovial, in a large white waistcoat and with a yellow rose in his buttonhole; Captain Sellers in a sack-coat, thin and pale-faced, with his iron-gray hair tucked behind his ears, and, but for the absence of spectacles, looking like an ascetical mild man of books; Captain Hell, a bluff sea-dog with hairy fingers, in blue serge and a black felt hat pushed far back off his crimson forehead. There was also a very young shipmaster, with a little fair moustache ...

— Tales Of Hearsay • Joseph Conrad

... a previous chapter the names of a number of these non-brahman leaders were given. Even the Hindu ascetics of these latter days are more numerously non-brahman than of old, for in theory only brahmans have reached the ascetical stage of religious development. Whatever the reason, the brahmanical monopoly of access to and inspiration from the Deity is no longer recognised by ...

— New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century - A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments • John Morrison

Words linked to "Ascetical" : spartan, ascetic, abstemious, austere