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aˈscetical, a.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Pertaining to, or treating of, the spiritual exercises by which perfection and virtue may be attained, as in Ascetical Theology.
a1617Bayne On Eph. (1866) 331 Hence it is that ascetical sermons..are not in that request. 1697tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. II. 145 The Ascetical Books attributed to St. Basil. 1884Addis & Arnold Cath. Dict. s.v., St. Francis of Sales and St. Alphonsus Liguori may be mentioned as modern saints whose ascetical works are most esteemed.
2. = ascetic 1.
1836Hor. Smith Tin Trump. (1876) 161 Our English puritans with their ascetical bigotry. |