The monastery, as the place where the required life of abstemiousness is lived under rigorous regulation and discipline, becomes the " asketerion, " a word which to the classical Greek conveyed only the notion of a place reserved for physical exercise; while the monks were the " ascetikoi, " the ascetics, under discipline attaining unto the perfect practise.
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According to the 1779 book Nocturnal Revels, on the Grand Tour he had visited various religious seminaries, " founded, as it were, in direct contradiction to Nature and Reason; on his return to England, [ he ] thought that a burlesque Institution in the name of St Francis, would mark the absurdity of such Societies; and in lieu of the austerities and abstemiousness there practised, substitute convivial gaiety, unrestrained hilarity, and social felicity ".
