Crossword-Solution: ASCETICAL
We have 4 clues for the answer “ASCETICAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like the lifestyle of many a monk | 1 answer |
| Rigorously abstinent | 2 answers |
| Abstinent | 15 answers |
| Austere | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASCETICAL (5)
But we should not conceive him as sagacious, ascetical, playing off his appetites against each other, turning the wing of public respectable immorality instead of riding it directly down, or advancing toward his end through a thousand sinister compromises and considerations.
Total abstinence, like all ascetical conclusions, is unfriendly to the most generous, cheerful, and human parts of man; but it could have adduced many instances and arguments from among our ship’s company.
While the mystical and ascetical sects of the North lost no time in creating new outward forms for their new modes of thought and feeling, each individual in Italy went his own way, and thousands wandered on the sea of life without any religious guidance whatever.
Being what he was, a monk of more than ordinary ascetical habits, he may have undertaken peculiar and difficult vows.
Some affected an ascetical simplicity of dress, and yet hugged their purses where their Bibles should have been.
Quotes with ASCETICAL (2)
Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at human passions and human cares, vice and virtue, religion and impiety; they are all the result of petty localities, and artificial situation. One physical want, one severe and abrupt lesson from the colorless and shriveled lip of necessity, is worth all the logic of the empty wretches who have presumed to prate it, from Zeno down to Burgersdicius. It silences in a s…
I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2014).