As'ci-tan, n.

n. [L. Lat. Asciata, from Gr. ἀσκής, leathern bag, wine skin.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. They introduced into their assemblies certain bacchanals, who danced around a bag or skin distended with air, in allusion to the bottles filled with new wine. Matt. ix. Encyc.