ADJECTIVE
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practicing great self-denial
a spartan existence
a desert nomad's austere life
Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it
a spartan diet -
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
ascetic practices
How To Use ascetical In A Sentence
- The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
- When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are. Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were
- The family lived rather ascetically.
- Let thy self-discipline be not in ascetical exercises as the false teachers (1Ti 4: 3, 8; compare 2Ti 2: 22, 23; Heb Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- Resigning his see to write, preach, and travel, he lived ascetically in London.
- she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself
- Other extant ascetical florilegia still remain unedited. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- I agree the tunnel would be the most ascetically pleasing option, but I'm pretty sure they could change any ordinance if they needed to. Sound Politics: Mayor Gridlock
- Are all men welcome to go there only if they live as monks, sharing the humility and simple lives of the inhabitants, eating, dressing, and living ascetically and piously, etc.?
- For very much of the literature that comes under this head of demonology is tainted with errors that may well owe their origin to the father of falsehood, and much of it again, especially those portions which have a practical purpose (what may be called the ascetical and mystical demonology) is designed to lead men to give themselves to the service of Satan. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
