#religious practice

• To sprinkle with holy water — To sprinkle a person, home, crop, or ritual object with holy water (agheasmă) within an ecclesiastical or traditional ritual of structural purification and blessing; in familiar or slang language, it means to consume alcohol in excess or to get drunk.
• To sprinkle with holy water — An orthographic variant recognized for aghesmui; the act of sprinkling a person, a household, crops, or various goods with holy water (agheasmă), accompanied by prayers of blessing and spiritual purification; in a colloquial sense, it designates the consumption of alcoholic beverages to the point of drunkenness.
• Ascetics — A branch of mystical theology dealing with the study of spiritual rules, exercises, and practices necessary for attaining Christian or moral perfection; the feminine form of the adjective ascetic, describing an entity, practice, or behavior that is austere and oriented toward voluntary deprivation.
• Asceticism — A rigorous moral attitude and lifestyle consisting of the renunciation of worldly pleasures, material comfort, and the gratification of bodily desires, aimed at achieving spiritual perfection, moral purification, or a higher state of enlightenment. This structural behavior often involves severe practices such as fasting, deep meditation, voluntary isolation, and asceticism.
• Ascesis — The voluntary, systematic, and persistent effort of spiritual perfection through rigorous exercises of mortification of desires, fasting, prayer, and self-imposed deprivations. It represents a fundamental practical method in the world's great religions and ascetic systems, aiming to free the soul from the dominance of biological instincts and achieve mystical union with the divine.