Ascetic \As*cet"ic\a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to exercise, to practice
gymnastics.]
Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere;
severe.
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The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. --Sir
W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ascetic \As*cet"ic\, n.
In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary
and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme
self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse;
hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in
religious things.
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I am far from commending those ascetics that take up
their quarters in deserts. --Norris.
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Ascetic theology, the science which treats of the practice
of the theological and moral virtues, and the counsels of
perfection. --Am. Cyc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
ascetic
adj 1: pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the
practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic
practices" [syn: ascetical]
2: practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically
ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you
would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's
austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
[syn: ascetical, austere, spartan]
n : practices self denial as spiritual discipline [syn: abstainer]
WordNet (r) 2.0
221 Moby Thesaurus words for "ascetic":
Albigensian, Apostolic, Apostolici, Catharist, Diogenes, Encratic,
Encratite, Franciscan, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Lenten,
Pythagorean, Pythagorist, Rechabite, Sabbatarian, Shaker, Spartan,
Stoic, Timon of Athens, Trappist, Waldensian, abbacomes, abbot,
abstainer, abstemious, abstinent, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic,
apologetic, astringent, atoning, austere, bald, banian, bare,
beadsman, bedridden invalid, bhikshu, brother, caloyer, candid,
celibate, cenobite, chaste, cleansing, cloistered monk,
closet cynic, common, commonplace, compensational, compensatory,
continent, conventual, conventual prior, dervish, desert fathers,
desert saints, direct, disciplined, dry, dull, dwarfed, dwarfish,
eremite, eremitic, exiguous, expiatory, fakir, flagellant,
forbearing, frank, friar, frugal, fruitarian, grand prior,
gymnosophist, hermit, hermitess, hieromonach, homebody, homely,
homespun, hydropot, impoverished, invalid, isolationist, jejune,
lay abbot, lay brother, lean, limited, loner, lustral,
lustrational, lustrative, marabout, matter-of-fact, meager, mean,
mendicant, miserly, monastic, monk, mortified, narrow, natural,
neat, nephalist, nephalistic, niggardly, on the wagon, open,
outcast, palmer, paltry, pariah, parsimonious, penitential,
piacular, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, plain, plain-speaking,
plain-spoken, poor, prior, propitiatory, prosaic, prosing, prosy,
puny, pure, purgative, purgatorial, purifying, puritan,
puritanical, reclamatory, recluse, recompensing, redeeming,
redemptive, redressing, religieux, religious, reparative,
reparatory, repentant, repenting, restitutional, restitutive,
restitutory, restrained, righting, rigoristic, rustic, sannyasi,
satisfactional, scant, scanty, schooled, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy,
seclusionist, self-abasing, self-abnegating, self-denying,
self-forgetful, selfless, severe, sexually abstinent, shut-in,
simple, simple-speaking, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim,
small, sober, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, spare, sparing,
squaring, stark, starvation, stay-at-home, stern, stingy, stinted,
straightforward, straitened, stunted, stylite, subsistence,
sworn off, teetotal, teetotaler, teetotalist, thin, trained,
unadorned, unaffected, unimaginative, unnourishing, unnutritious,
unpoetical, unvarnished, vegetarian, water-drinker, watered,
watery, wedded to poverty, yogi, yogin
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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