Difference between Abstemious and Ascetical

ABSTEMIOUS vs ASCETICAL: ADJECTIVE

Sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
Eating and drinking in moderation.
Characterized by abstinence or moderation.
Abstaining from wine.
Marked by temperance in indulgence
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence.
Promotive of abstemiousness.
Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.

Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
Practicing great self-denial
Ascetic

Sparing in diet; moderate in the use of food and drink; temperate; abstinent.
Restricted; very moderate and plain; very sparing; spare: opposed to luxurious or rich: as, an abstemious diet.
Devoted to or spent in abstemiousness or abstinence: as, an abstemious life.
Promoting or favoring abstemiousness; associated with temperance.

Pertaining to the practice of rigid self-denial and the mortification of the body as a means of attaining virtue and holiness; ascetic.

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Trinitarian, Conciliar, Christological, Monistic, Churchly, Pietistic, Mithraic, Sacerdotal, Unscriptural, Christocentric, Patristic, Spartan, Abstemious, Austere, Ascetic

Pious, Frugal, Sober, Unostentatious, Parsimonious, Monkish, Teetotal, Abstentious, Light, Temperate, Abstinent, Spartan, Ascetical, Austere, Ascetic

Trinitarian, Conciliar, Christological, Monistic, Churchly, Pietistic, Mithraic, Sacerdotal, Unscriptural, Christocentric, Patristic, Spartan, Abstemious, Austere, Ascetic

He was incapable of small talk, and he was an unapologetic workaholic, abstemious to the point of joylessness.
Sith consider the dark side of the Force to be its most powerful manifestation, and regard the abstemious Jedi as blinded by false virtue.
She can achieve this goal in part by reducing her sexual desires and production of semen through an abstemious diet of cooling, drying foods.
Nana was an abstemious eater though, as in his good old days, he enjoyed his Mosi and Castle lagers, occasionally taking Gin.
Bill, who wants to lose weight, is abstemious in eating foods high in fat.
But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.
His habits were strictly abstemious, and he neither took wine nor strong drink.
Small, narrow, slim; weak, feeble, slight; moderate, trivial, inconsiderable, meager; spare, abstemious, frugal.
Diagonalising dice organelles stalactites abstemious inhales commemorated auxiliaries sociocultural.

Christian perfection, and their practice, not only in the ordinary degree, but also in the ascetical and mystical life.
Rather, they use the figure of the Canaanite woman, along with other Biblical characters, todevelop their own representations of spiritual or ascetical ideals.
Above all, the growth in the belief reflects the influence of monasticism with its ascetical practice of sexual continence.
Here he devoted himself to the study of ascetical writings and to manual labor, but his keen intellect gave him no peace.
It is about linking the ascetical virtues that Ambrose espouses and orthodox faith, witness, and salvation.
Why do Jewish and Christian traditions promote the ascetical disciplines of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving?
Hans Boersma is the Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Professor in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary.
Though there are many details obscure, the resultant picture is of an ascetical group with priestly leadership.
The Spiritual Life: A Treatise on Ascetical and Mystical Theology BY Tanquerey, Adolphe.
Athanasius, presents him as a truly inspiring example of monastic ascetical perfection.