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Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe. The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. Sir W. Scott.

The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.

A member of one of certain ascetic sects which at various times professed to imitate the practice of the apostles.

Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

An Oriental religious ascetic or begging monk. [Written also faquir anf fakeer.]

Hairy. [Obc.] His hairen shirt and his ascetic diet. J. Taylor.

Jovinian, a monk of the fourth century, who denied the virginity of Mary, and opposed the asceticism of his time.

Mohammedans, particularly in Persia, who hold to a kind of pantheism and practice extreme asceticism in their lives. [Written also sofism.]

region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man. Gladstone. Ascetic theology, Natural theology. See Ascetic, Natural. -- Moral theology, that phase of theology which is concerned with moral character and conduct. -- Revealed theology, theology which is to be learned only from revelation.…

A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties.

A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic. [Spelt also yokin.] Whitworth.