Anchorite
11Anchorite Hills — Geobox|Range name = Anchorite Hills native name = other name = category = Mountain Range etymology = image caption = country = United States state = Nevada region = district = Mineral County municipality = topo topo maker = USGS range = border =… …
12anchorite — also anchoret noun Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin anchorita, alteration of Late Latin anachoreta, from Late Greek anachōrētēs, from Greek anachōrein to withdraw, from ana + chōrein to make room, from chōros place Date: 15th… …
13anchorite — anchoritic /ang keuh rit ik/, adj. anchoritically, adv. anchoritism /ang keuh ruy tiz euhm/, n. /ang keuh ruyt /, n. a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit. Also, anchoret. [1400 50; late ME… …
14anchorite — noun One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons. About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these… …
15anchorite — Synonyms and related words: Albigensian, Catharist, Diogenes, Franciscan, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Sabbatarian, Timon of Athens, Trappist, Waldensian, abstainer, anchoress, ascetic, bedridden invalid, bhikshu, cloistered monk, closet cynic,… …
16anchorite — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. anchoret, recluse, hermit (See asceticism) …
17Anchorite — Greek for withdrawal, forsaking, referring to a monk who has withdrawn from the world to live the life of a hermit (eremite [q.v.]), in prayer, silence, and rigorous asceticism (q.v.). This kind of monasticism (q.v.) can also refer to a monk… …
18anchorite — one withdrawn from the world for religious reasons Ecclesiastical Terms …
19anchorite — n. one who relinquishes material possessions and lives in solitude …
20Anchorite — Hermit …
