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Ascetical   Listen
adjective
ascetical  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic "Ascetical practices"
Synonyms: ascetic
2.
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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"Ascetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... European languages, and missionaries rendered it into heathen tongues. The Roman Catholics received it, and claimed it as one of their treasures. When Professor Anton visited the Jesuit Library at Madrid, in 1687, he inquired for the best ascetical writer. The librarian produced a copy of Arndt's True Christianity, which, though without preface or introduction, had this simple expression on the first page: "This book is more ...
— History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology • John F. Hurst
... Confessors, by what authority do they these things, and who gave them this authority. Assuredly, their bishops declare they do not, and cannot. Excellent and beyond reproach as are these clergymen, well-instructed as they may be in the casuistry of the Roman Catholic moral, theological, and ascetical works, their absolutions are null and void, and of no more avail than if pronounced by mere laymen. The joy and peace produced in the souls of many who submit to these ministrations, arise not from the genuineness of the ordinance. God in ...
— Confession and Absolution • Thomas John Capel
... 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 revealed ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds


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


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