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1. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
   "ascetic practices"
   - ascetical
    
2. Practising great self-denial
   "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"
   - ascetical, austere, spartan

1. Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
   - abstainer

Derived forms: ascetics

See also: abstemious, ascetically

Type of: religious person

Encyclopedia: Ascetic