Adjective : an ascetic existence.    From Dictionary.com. 

Let thy self-discipline be not in ascetical exercises as the false teachers (1Ti 4: 3, 8; compare 2Ti 2: 22, 23; Heb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference

But this seriousness was not ascetical or moroseful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference

My life is such that I don't need a special ascetical regimen to do that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living mystery] Reference

Alara was to teach them the core essentials and principals of the ascetical teachings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buddhism: A beginners guide: Part 2] Reference

When we have an ascetical regime and stay faithful to it, we are given the consolations we need.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

He was a man who lived all his life the ascetical discipline that he had learned at the seminary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

And so neither is it surprising that the gutting of our ascetical tradition affected the clergy disastrously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference

It is in the mid-third to fourth centuries, however, that the ascetical movement really became a powerful and distinctively organized movement in Christianity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norris J. Chumley, Ph.D.: The Compelling Spiritual Discipline Of Asceticism] Reference

"Oh, what cruel, ascetical egoism!" she cried violently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference

An ascetical life would free you from the desire that nags and worries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The hermeneutic of continuity] Reference

He also translated into Latin many works, mainly ascetical and theological.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Jesuit Library at Madrid, in 1687, he inquired for the best ascetical writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology] Reference

A great number of ascetical writers sprang up during the seventeenth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

I think, with an ascetical continence too -- and a beautiful love and reverence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bed-Book of Happiness] Reference

Scupoli; the writings of St. Francis de Sales, and a countless host of other ascetical authors?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Faith of Our Fathers] Reference

He was undoubtedly the first to give to ascetical theology a more or less definite, scientific character.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

He had just been reading the Saint's works, and was much attracted by his ascetical attitude towards the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference

The transition period up to the twelfth century exhibits no specially noteworthy advance in ascetical literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

Few works in ascetical literature, except the writings of St. Teresa and St. Augustine, impart such a knowledge of the soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of St. Ignatius] Reference

In fact, there is a question, and we should, as Orthodox Christians, care about its answer from the ascetical tradition of our faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deacon Raphael] Reference

Though unwavering in his ascetical principles, he yet possessed an admirable facility for adapting them without constraint or rigidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference