eremitic

2 definitions found

eremitic - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Eremitic \Er`e*mit"ic\, Eremitical \Er`e*mit"ic*al\, a.
     Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in
     solitude. "An eremitical life in the woods." --Fuller. "The
     eremitic instinct." --Lowell.
     [1913 Webster]

eremitic - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  eremitic
      adj 1: of or relating to or befitting eremites or their
             practices of hermitic living; "eremitic austerities"
             [syn: eremitic, eremitical] [ant: cenobitic,
             cenobitical, coenobitic, coenobitical]
      2: characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in
         the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"
         [syn: anchoritic, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic,
         hermitical]