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ascetical

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adj.1.pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic
2.practicing great self-denial.
Be systematically ascetic . . . do . . . something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it.
- William James.
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Adj.1.ascetical - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
ascetic
2.ascetical - 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, austere, spartan
abstemious - sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy


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