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.

  By PanEris using Melati.

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