- 2. Discover, find out, get at (with precision).
Ascetic, a. Austere, rigid, severe, stern, puritan ical, over-renunciatory, over-self-denying, self-mortifying, over-abstinent.
Ascetic, n. Recluse, hermit, anchoret, anchorite, solitary, solitaire, eremite, devotee, mortifier of the flesh.
Asceticism, n. Austerity, mortification, excessive abstinence, over-renunciation, renunciation.
Ascititious, a. See adscititious.
Ascribable, a. Attributable, traceable, chargeable, imputable, referrible, owing.
Ascribe, v. a. Attribute, assign, refer, charge, lay, set down. See impute.
Ascription, n.
- 1. Ascribing, attributing, referring, charging, laying, setting down, imputing.
- 2. [pl.] Praises, adorations, magnifyings, extollings, homage, Magnificats, Glorias, Te Deums.
As far as. To the extent that, to the degree that.
As good as.
- 1. Of equal goodness with.
- 2. The same as, equivalent to, equal to, tanta-mount to.
Ashamed, a. Abashed, confused, (put) out of countenance.
Ash-colored, a. Ashy, pale, gray, ashen.
Ashen, a.
- 1. Ash, made of ash.
- 2. Ashy, pale, pallid, blanched, hueless, colorless, gray, ash-colored.
Ashes, n. pl.
- 1. Remains (of what is burned).
- 2. Corpse, remains (of the human body), dead body.