† scleragogyn.
Obsolete.
Severe discipline or training; hard treatment of the body; mortification.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > asceticism > [noun] > mortifying the flesh, etc.
mortifyingc1384
mortificationc1390
scleragogy1621
necrosis1706
crucifixiona1711
1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 379 Amongst Christians, that Scleragogie of the ancient Monks and Ascetæ was in feeding vpon those λάχανα.
1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 149 Godly sorrow or contrition, which the Scleragogy..was most like to create.
1680 Counterplots 15 We have heard from St. Jerome of the abstinence and Scleragogy of Montanus.
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