anchoriten.adj.

Brit.

/ˈaŋkərʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈæŋkəˌraɪt/

Forms:

α. late Middle English– anachorite, 1500s anacorite, 1500s–1600s anachorete, 1500s–1700s anachorit, 1600s– anachoret Brit. /əˈnakərᵻt/, U.S. /əˈnækərət/.

β. late Middle English ancorite, late Middle English– anchorite, 1500s–1600s ankerite, 1500s– anchoret (now rare), 1600s anchorete.

γ. 1600s an'chrit, 1600s anch'rite, 1800s–1900s ankret (archaic), 1900s anchret (archaic).

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anachorite; Latin anachoreta.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French anachorite (late 12th cent. in Old French as anacoritte ; French anachorète ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anachoreta, anachorita hermit, recluse (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome; from 7th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British and Irish sources) < Byzantine Greek ἀναχωρητής (also occasionally ἀναχωριτής ; compare -ite suffix¹) hermit, recluse < ancient Greek ἀναχωρεῖν to retire, retreat ( < ἀνα- ana- prefix + χωρεῖν to go: see -chore comb. form) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns. With use as noun compare earlier anchor n.² and anchoress n. With use as adjective compare earlier anchoretical adj.Parallels in other languages. Compare Old Occitan anacorita (15th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation), Spanish anacoreta (c1270 as anachorita ), Portuguese anacoreta (14th cent. as anacorita ), Italian anacoreta , †anacorita (14th cent.), and also Middle Dutch anachorīt (Dutch anachoreet ), German Anachoret , †Anachorit (late 14th cent. as anacharid ). Variant forms. In sense A. 2 often in form anachoret at α. forms, after Byzantine Greek ἀναχωρητής. In the β. forms with remodelling of the initial syllables after anchor n.²; compare post-classical Latin anchorita (from 7th cent. in Irish sources, 8th cent. in a British source), anchoreta (7th cent. in an Irish source). With the γ. forms compare the (more frequent) α. forms at anchoress n. With forms ending in -it and -ite (in English and French) compare -ite suffix¹.

A. n.

1. A person who has withdrawn or secluded him or herself from the world, usually for religious reasons; a recluse, a hermit.Applied to both sexes, though a feminine form anchoress n. is also used. Cf. anchor n.²

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun]

anchorOE

eremitec1200

recluse?c1225

hermitc1275

solitary1435

anchoritea1450

inclusec1460

anchorist1581

cremitt1624

mandrite1844

saint1888

α.

a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 144 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 417 (MED) [He] leued as an hermyte And..Beside a welle lay, lik an Anachorite.

1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule i. sig. Av The seconde maner or secte is, of Anachorites & Eremites.

a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 96 A Chapel of a Woman Anachorete.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. v He had wilfully mur'd up himselfe as an Anachoret.

1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum 368 An house..for which an Anachoret paid 12 d. per Annum.

1786 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 198/2 A hermitage, inhabited by a simple unlettered Anachoret.

1888 E. Venables Walks through Streets of Lincoln (ed. 3) 49 The dwellings of these anachorites were not much bigger than the old watch boxes.

1977 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 83 He [sc. Bernal Boyl] belonged to a tough order of anachorets, who were forbidden to eat meat, milk products and eggs.

β. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 52 Thelophorus [was] mad pope, whech was first a ancorite.1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Lvi^v He was a frier, a monke, a Capuccine an anchorite, yea what was he not?a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 47 A solitary Anchorite that dwells, Retir'd from all the World in obscure Cells.1741 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. July 375/2 The Ostentation of a Philosopher, or the Severity of an Anchoret.1788 S. Rowson Inquisitor III. 54 The fortitude of an anchorite.1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 120 No anchoret could have make a more simple and scanty meal.1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness i. 1 Elijah was a sort of anchorite or hermit.1932 H. V. Morton In Search of Wales vii. 116 Bardsey was claimed early in history by an anchorite whose only thought was to retire from the world.2005 R. Gilchrist Norwich Cathedral Close iv. 98 There was an anchorite's cell at the east end of the north alley of the choir.γ. 1634 W. Habington Castara i. 3 The Vowes of recluse Nuns, and th' An'chrits prayer.1663 R. Stapleton Slighted Maid ii. 31 Th' Anch'rite, who has liv'd An Age in's Grave.1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. 115 Not always did the ankret live beneath the church's roof.1901 ‘M. Fairless’ Gathering of Brother Hilarius (1902) ii. iii. 59 He was held a saint above all the ankrets before him.1904 J. P. Lonargan Cwan & Genevieve vi. 127 But the youth finding his secret unbearable was told at the anchret's window to tell it to a willow tree.

2. Church History. Frequently (esp. in early use) in form anachoret. A recluse or hermit of the early Eastern Church.

ΚΠ

α.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 202/1 Monkes..were diuided into Heremites or Anachorites [1596 anachorits], and into Cœnobites.

1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. f4^v The Faune..desired the mediatory Prayers of Anthony, the Anachoret.

1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. ii. vii. 170 Thebais.., which hath been the retreat of so many Religious Anachorets, that built there their Covents in the first Ages of Christianity.

1728 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. II. xiii. 225 Some of them were Anachorets, living altogether in solitude..; others were Cœnobites.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvii. 354 The holy man was followed by a train of two or three thousand anachorets.

1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. iv. 186 The same contempt for riches, which distinguished the anachorets of Egypt.

1868 Catholic World July 514/1 The great anachorites, Paul, Antony, Hilarion, and Pacomius, were dead; but their disciples lived.

1975 T. Säve-Söderbergh in J.-É. Ménard Textes de Nag Hammadi 10 Pachom from the bad smell of some visiting anachorets found out that they possessed the heretic writings of Origenes.

2010 Folklore 121 94 The ‘great martyr’ Paraskeve of Ikonion (28 October), anachorite and missionary, who was decapitated during the reign of Diocletian.

β. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. iv. 382 Paphnutius, a great man, an Anchoret.1664 C. Jelinger New Way of Dying 89 in Heaven won by Violence (1665) Macarius the Eygptian [sic] Anchorete.1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. vii. i. 9 From that time [sc. the year 250] to the Reign of Constantine, Monachism was confined to the Anchorets living in Private Cells in the Wilderness.a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) I. 304 All the principal anchorets and holy solitaries of Egypt and Syria.1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands v. 154 Endless caverns..where the Anchorites, in the early days of the Church, lived.1955 Life 26 Dec. 38/1 The deserts near Antioch and in Egypt filled with hundreds of anchorites.2007 Zeitschr. f. Papyrologie u. Epigraphik 159 229 A Dynastic Egyptian tomb at Beni Hasan, reused in the Byzantine period probably by Christian anchorites.

3. More generally: a person of solitary or secluded habits; a reclusive or unsocial person.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > person

anchorite?1614

solitarian1655

retirer1678

solitaire1716

recluse1751

solitarya1763

hermit1799

troglodyte1854

umbratile1888

cop-out1969

?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: You restlesse Seas in Poems Fram'd for Mishap, th' Anachorit of Loue.

1681 S. Colledge Let. from Oxf. (single sheet) I may tell you that I am not such a retir'd Anchorite, but that I Visit the Great-Hall now and then.

1725 J. Glanvill Poems 84 Will it the Maid's Discretion prove To live the Anchoret of Love?

1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i What a phlegmatic sot it is! Why, sirrah, you're an anchorite!—a vile, insensible stock.

1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiv. 132 Even among those rigid and absorbed young anchorites,..Paul was an object of general interest.

1864 I. Taylor in Good Words 787 The individual reader, the fireside anchoret.

1898 H. James Let. 19 Oct. (1920) I. 296 I've done very well—have only not been quite such an anchorite as I had planned.

1918 L. Merrick While Paris Laughed xi. 256 Poor anchorite, who has still to grow up! And when you are a man and get married yourself?

2007 Vanity Fair June 143 Despite the long, late hours Bob spends at his desk, he is no anchorite.

B. adj.

1. Disposed to prefer isolation or solitude; characterized by secluded or solitary habits; reclusive, unsocial.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective]

reclusedc1443

quiet1507

withdrawing1576

secluse1597

reclusive1600

secluded1604

recluse1608

withdrawn?1615

sequestering1620

monastica1631

anchorite1639

solitousa1656

sequestered1658

snug1710

hermitish1812

anchoritish1823

umbratic1839

Garboesque1928

Garboic1937

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. ii. 169 An owl flew out of the place: Whereupon they desisted from further search, conceiving that that anchorite bird proclaimed nothing was there but solitude and desolation.

1712 E. Ward Misc. Writings (ed. 2) III. 310 Magus where art! rouze from thy Anchorite Bed.

1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story II. vii. 113 The grave, the sanctified, the anchorite Dorriforth.

1829 New Monthly Mag. 25 319 And now I care nought for society, Tom, And lead a most anchorite life.

1850 C. Brontë Let. 22 Feb. (2000) II. 350 My life of anchorite seclusion shuts out all bearers of tidings.

1873 A. L. Adams Field & Forest Rambles xi. 270 Their vast solitudes are only the resorts of an occasional moose, reindeer, or Virginian deer, with an anchorite bear or two.

1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 29 Then life's pistons..Begin to tickle the most anchorite ear.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 9 Jan. 13 There's anchorite Hugo, listening to the paint curl on his skirting boards.

2. Designating a person who is an anchorite (in senses A. 1 and A. 2); belonging to or characteristic of such a person.

ΚΠ

1645 H. Hammond Considerations Change of Church Govt. 2 A Stylita or Anachorite Christian.

1672 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Treat. Temporal & Eternal ii. iv. 162 A Place called Sides, which belonged to the Anchorite Monks, who live in great perfection and retirement.

1744 C. Smith Antient & Present State County Down xvii. 223 Pillars were erected in the Eastern Countries for the Reception of a Sort of Anachoret Monks, who lived on the Top of them.

1795 W. W. Seward Topographia Hibernica at Lismore An anchorite cell, which was endowed with the lands of Ballyhausy or anchoret's town.

1857 I. T. Hecker Aspirations of Nature xxxii. 310 Mother Juliana, an anchorite nun,..lived in the time of King Edward the Third.

1920 S. Greenbie Japan, Real & Imaginary xiv. 232 En-no-Gyoja, the anchorite priest.., lived in a cave on Katsurgi Mount for forty years.

2005 Jewish Q. Rev. 95 242 The anchorite life was not a form of social protest.

Compounds

anchorite's window n. (also anchorite window) historical (now rare) a small opening through which an anchorite receives food, communications, etc.

ΚΠ

1865 Athenæum 16 Dec. 849/2 Canon Rock..considered the opening to be an anchorite window.

1889 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 148 Some think it an anchoret window, others a ‘leper’ window.

1994 R. Gilchrist Gender & Material Culture vii. 178 At Lindsell (Essex), for example, an anchorite's window survives to the north of the chancel.

Derivatives

ˈanchorite-like adv. and adj.

ΚΠ

1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Neh. vi. 10) 70 He was thus (Anchoret-like) pent up.

1838 Series Orig. Portraits J. Kay II. i. 231 Of the simplicity and anchorite-like demeanour of Andrew Donaldson, there are several curious reminiscences.

2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 July e1 This is, she said, ‘the most hidden, anchorite-like, beautiful, walled-upped’ building in the city.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	anchorite
释义	anchoriten.adj. Brit. /ˈaŋkərʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈæŋkəˌraɪt/ Forms: α. late Middle English– anachorite, 1500s anacorite, 1500s–1600s anachorete, 1500s–1700s anachorit, 1600s– anachoret Brit. /əˈnakərᵻt/, U.S. /əˈnækərət/. β. late Middle English ancorite, late Middle English– anchorite, 1500s–1600s ankerite, 1500s– anchoret (now rare), 1600s anchorete. γ. 1600s an'chrit, 1600s anch'rite, 1800s–1900s ankret (archaic), 1900s anchret (archaic). Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anachorite; Latin anachoreta. Etymology: < (i) Middle French anachorite (late 12th cent. in Old French as anacoritte ; French anachorète ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin anachoreta, anachorita hermit, recluse (4th or 5th cent. in Jerome; from 7th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British and Irish sources) < Byzantine Greek ἀναχωρητής (also occasionally ἀναχωριτής ; compare -ite suffix¹) hermit, recluse < ancient Greek ἀναχωρεῖν to retire, retreat ( < ἀνα- ana- prefix + χωρεῖν to go: see -chore comb. form) + -τής , suffix forming agent nouns. With use as noun compare earlier anchor n.² and anchoress n. With use as adjective compare earlier anchoretical adj.Parallels in other languages. Compare Old Occitan anacorita (15th cent. in an apparently isolated attestation), Spanish anacoreta (c1270 as anachorita ), Portuguese anacoreta (14th cent. as anacorita ), Italian anacoreta , †anacorita (14th cent.), and also Middle Dutch anachorīt (Dutch anachoreet ), German Anachoret , †Anachorit (late 14th cent. as anacharid ). Variant forms. In sense A. 2 often in form anachoret at α. forms, after Byzantine Greek ἀναχωρητής. In the β. forms with remodelling of the initial syllables after anchor n.²; compare post-classical Latin anchorita (from 7th cent. in Irish sources, 8th cent. in a British source), anchoreta (7th cent. in an Irish source). With the γ. forms compare the (more frequent) α. forms at anchoress n. With forms ending in -it and -ite (in English and French) compare -ite suffix¹. A. n. 1. A person who has withdrawn or secluded him or herself from the world, usually for religious reasons; a recluse, a hermit.Applied to both sexes, though a feminine form anchoress n. is also used. Cf. anchor n.² ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] anchorOE eremitec1200 recluse?c1225 hermitc1275 solitary1435 anchoritea1450 inclusec1460 anchorist1581 cremitt1624 mandrite1844 saint1888 α. a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 144 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 417 (MED) [He] leued as an hermyte And..Beside a welle lay, lik an Anachorite. 1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule i. sig. Av The seconde maner or secte is, of Anachorites & Eremites. a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) V. 96 A Chapel of a Woman Anachorete. 1608 Bp. J. Hall Epist. I. i. v He had wilfully mur'd up himselfe as an Anachoret. 1686 F. Philipps Investigatio Jurium Antiquorum 368 An house..for which an Anachoret paid 12 d. per Annum. 1786 Town & Country Mag. Apr. 198/2 A hermitage, inhabited by a simple unlettered Anachoret. 1888 E. Venables Walks through Streets of Lincoln (ed. 3) 49 The dwellings of these anachorites were not much bigger than the old watch boxes. 1977 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 83 He [sc. Bernal Boyl] belonged to a tough order of anachorets, who were forbidden to eat meat, milk products and eggs. β. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 52 Thelophorus [was] mad pope, whech was first a ancorite.1556 J. Ponet Shorte Treat. Politike Power sig. Lvi^v He was a frier, a monke, a Capuccine an anchorite, yea what was he not?a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 47 A solitary Anchorite that dwells, Retir'd from all the World in obscure Cells.1741 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. July 375/2 The Ostentation of a Philosopher, or the Severity of an Anchoret.1788 S. Rowson Inquisitor III. 54 The fortitude of an anchorite.1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vi. 120 No anchoret could have make a more simple and scanty meal.1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness i. 1 Elijah was a sort of anchorite or hermit.1932 H. V. Morton In Search of Wales vii. 116 Bardsey was claimed early in history by an anchorite whose only thought was to retire from the world.2005 R. Gilchrist Norwich Cathedral Close iv. 98 There was an anchorite's cell at the east end of the north alley of the choir.γ. 1634 W. Habington Castara i. 3 The Vowes of recluse Nuns, and th' An'chrits prayer.1663 R. Stapleton Slighted Maid ii. 31 Th' Anch'rite, who has liv'd An Age in's Grave.1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. 115 Not always did the ankret live beneath the church's roof.1901 ‘M. Fairless’ Gathering of Brother Hilarius (1902) ii. iii. 59 He was held a saint above all the ankrets before him.1904 J. P. Lonargan Cwan & Genevieve vi. 127 But the youth finding his secret unbearable was told at the anchret's window to tell it to a willow tree. 2. Church History. Frequently (esp. in early use) in form anachoret. A recluse or hermit of the early Eastern Church. ΚΠ α. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 202/1 Monkes..were diuided into Heremites or Anachorites [1596 anachorits], and into Cœnobites. 1649 W. Charleton in tr. J. B. van Helmont Ternary of Paradoxes Prolegomena sig. f4^v The Faune..desired the mediatory Prayers of Anthony, the Anachoret. 1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. ii. vii. 170 Thebais.., which hath been the retreat of so many Religious Anachorets, that built there their Covents in the first Ages of Christianity. 1728 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. II. xiii. 225 Some of them were Anachorets, living altogether in solitude..; others were Cœnobites. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvii. 354 The holy man was followed by a train of two or three thousand anachorets. 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. iv. 186 The same contempt for riches, which distinguished the anachorets of Egypt. 1868 Catholic World July 514/1 The great anachorites, Paul, Antony, Hilarion, and Pacomius, were dead; but their disciples lived. 1975 T. Säve-Söderbergh in J.-É. Ménard Textes de Nag Hammadi 10 Pachom from the bad smell of some visiting anachorets found out that they possessed the heretic writings of Origenes. 2010 Folklore 121 94 The ‘great martyr’ Paraskeve of Ikonion (28 October), anachorite and missionary, who was decapitated during the reign of Diocletian. β. 1587 J. Bridges Def. Govt. Church of Eng. iv. 382 Paphnutius, a great man, an Anchoret.1664 C. Jelinger New Way of Dying 89 in Heaven won by Violence (1665) Macarius the Eygptian [sic] Anchorete.1711 J. Bingham Origines Ecclesiasticæ III. vii. i. 9 From that time [sc. the year 250] to the Reign of Constantine, Monachism was confined to the Anchorets living in Private Cells in the Wilderness.a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) I. 304 All the principal anchorets and holy solitaries of Egypt and Syria.1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands v. 154 Endless caverns..where the Anchorites, in the early days of the Church, lived.1955 Life 26 Dec. 38/1 The deserts near Antioch and in Egypt filled with hundreds of anchorites.2007 Zeitschr. f. Papyrologie u. Epigraphik 159 229 A Dynastic Egyptian tomb at Beni Hasan, reused in the Byzantine period probably by Christian anchorites. 3. More generally: a person of solitary or secluded habits; a reclusive or unsocial person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > person anchorite?1614 solitarian1655 retirer1678 solitaire1716 recluse1751 solitarya1763 hermit1799 troglodyte1854 umbratile1888 cop-out1969 ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: You restlesse Seas in Poems Fram'd for Mishap, th' Anachorit of Loue. 1681 S. Colledge Let. from Oxf. (single sheet) I may tell you that I am not such a retir'd Anchorite, but that I Visit the Great-Hall now and then. 1725 J. Glanvill Poems 84 Will it the Maid's Discretion prove To live the Anchoret of Love? 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. i What a phlegmatic sot it is! Why, sirrah, you're an anchorite!—a vile, insensible stock. 1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xiv. 132 Even among those rigid and absorbed young anchorites,..Paul was an object of general interest. 1864 I. Taylor in Good Words 787 The individual reader, the fireside anchoret. 1898 H. James Let. 19 Oct. (1920) I. 296 I've done very well—have only not been quite such an anchorite as I had planned. 1918 L. Merrick While Paris Laughed xi. 256 Poor anchorite, who has still to grow up! And when you are a man and get married yourself? 2007 Vanity Fair June 143 Despite the long, late hours Bob spends at his desk, he is no anchorite. B. adj. 1. Disposed to prefer isolation or solitude; characterized by secluded or solitary habits; reclusive, unsocial. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] reclusedc1443 quiet1507 withdrawing1576 secluse1597 reclusive1600 secluded1604 recluse1608 withdrawn?1615 sequestering1620 monastica1631 anchorite1639 solitousa1656 sequestered1658 snug1710 hermitish1812 anchoritish1823 umbratic1839 Garboesque1928 Garboic1937 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. ii. 169 An owl flew out of the place: Whereupon they desisted from further search, conceiving that that anchorite bird proclaimed nothing was there but solitude and desolation. 1712 E. Ward Misc. Writings (ed. 2) III. 310 Magus where art! rouze from thy Anchorite Bed. 1791 E. Inchbald Simple Story II. vii. 113 The grave, the sanctified, the anchorite Dorriforth. 1829 New Monthly Mag. 25 319 And now I care nought for society, Tom, And lead a most anchorite life. 1850 C. Brontë Let. 22 Feb. (2000) II. 350 My life of anchorite seclusion shuts out all bearers of tidings. 1873 A. L. Adams Field & Forest Rambles xi. 270 Their vast solitudes are only the resorts of an occasional moose, reindeer, or Virginian deer, with an anchorite bear or two. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem ii. 29 Then life's pistons..Begin to tickle the most anchorite ear. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 9 Jan. 13 There's anchorite Hugo, listening to the paint curl on his skirting boards. 2. Designating a person who is an anchorite (in senses A. 1 and A. 2); belonging to or characteristic of such a person. ΚΠ 1645 H. Hammond Considerations Change of Church Govt. 2 A Stylita or Anachorite Christian. 1672 V. Mullineaux tr. J. E. Nieremberg Treat. Temporal & Eternal ii. iv. 162 A Place called Sides, which belonged to the Anchorite Monks, who live in great perfection and retirement. 1744 C. Smith Antient & Present State County Down xvii. 223 Pillars were erected in the Eastern Countries for the Reception of a Sort of Anachoret Monks, who lived on the Top of them. 1795 W. W. Seward Topographia Hibernica at Lismore An anchorite cell, which was endowed with the lands of Ballyhausy or anchoret's town. 1857 I. T. Hecker Aspirations of Nature xxxii. 310 Mother Juliana, an anchorite nun,..lived in the time of King Edward the Third. 1920 S. Greenbie Japan, Real & Imaginary xiv. 232 En-no-Gyoja, the anchorite priest.., lived in a cave on Katsurgi Mount for forty years. 2005 Jewish Q. Rev. 95 242 The anchorite life was not a form of social protest. Compounds anchorite's window n. (also anchorite window) historical (now rare) a small opening through which an anchorite receives food, communications, etc. ΚΠ 1865 Athenæum 16 Dec. 849/2 Canon Rock..considered the opening to be an anchorite window. 1889 Proc. Soc. Antiq. Newcastle-upon-Tyne 3 148 Some think it an anchoret window, others a ‘leper’ window. 1994 R. Gilchrist Gender & Material Culture vii. 178 At Lindsell (Essex), for example, an anchorite's window survives to the north of the chancel. Derivatives ˈanchorite-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Ezra (Neh. vi. 10) 70 He was thus (Anchoret-like) pent up. 1838 Series Orig. Portraits J. Kay II. i. 231 Of the simplicity and anchorite-like demeanour of Andrew Donaldson, there are several curious reminiscences. 2003 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 July e1 This is, she said, ‘the most hidden, anchorite-like, beautiful, walled-upped’ building in the city. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.a1450
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