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Answer for the clue "Like the lifestyle of many a monk ", 9 letters:
ascetical

Word definitions for ascetical in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
ascetical \ascetical\ adj. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic ascetical practices Syn: ascetic practicing great self-denial. Syn: ascetic, austere, spartan Be systematically ascetic . . . do . . . something for no other reason than that you would ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. ascetic

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" [syn: ascetic ] practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather ...

Usage examples of ascetical.

These little acts of courtesy, so natural to the gentleman, were anything but natural to one suddenly impressed with the ascetical temper of methodism.

The old ones have slouched into their ascetical lodgings where they can be found snoring in that never-never land of Buddhist prenirvana, while the younger ones are still up doing whatever it is young boys do late at night, when their lives have suddenly been inundatedninety years after the fact with electric light.

Being what he was, a monk of more than ordinary ascetical habits, he may have undertaken peculiar and difficult vows.

Many treat of the ascetical life, but some deal with classical literature and natural science.

Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint?