Ascetic ¹

Definition: Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

Ascetic ²

Definition: 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.

ascetic ³

Definition: practices self denial as spiritual discipline

ascetic ⁴

Definition: 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"

ascetic ⁵

Definition: pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"