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herˈmitical, a. See also eremitical. [f. as prec. + -al1.] Of or pertaining to a hermit.
1586D. Rowland tr. Jean de Luna's Lazarillo (1672) U iv a, Some notion of the Hermiticall life. 1615T. Adams Black Devil 26 The melancholly man..lives an Hermitical, solitary life. 1715Bentley Serm. x. 350 Instead of the old Hermitical Poverty they had drain'd the Riches of Kingdoms. 1882–3A. F. Mitchell in Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 580 [The Culdees] seem at times [in 7th century] to have formed ‘hermitical establishments’. Hence herˈmitically adv.
1842J. Mackintosh Let. in Life (1854) 47 Hermitically inclined I fancied myself. |