eremitic, a.
(ɛrɪˈmɪtɪk)
Also 5 heremytyke.
[f. as prec. + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to an eremite.
| 1483 Caxton Gold Leg. 423/2, I do seke a place for to lede my lyf heremytyke and solytarylye. 1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 170 The romance of the eremitic life must be abandoned as impracticable. 1864 Lowell Fireside Trav. 75 The eremitic instinct is not peculiar to the Thebais. |