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stylite Eccl. Hist.|ˈstaɪlaɪt|
Also in Gr. form stylites |staɪˈlaɪtiːz|.
[ad. Eccl. Gr. στῡλῑ́της, f. στῦλ-ος pillar: see -ite.]
An ascetic who lived on the top of a pillar. Also attrib. or as adj.
αa1638Mede Apostasy Later Times (1641) 150 Peter à Metra, a famous Stylite, or Pillar-Monk. 1753R. Clayton Jrnl. fr. Cairo to Mt. Sinai 12 Sept. 1722, The second [chapel is] of St. Simon the Stylite. 1831K. H. Digby Mores Cath. (1845) I. ii. ii. 114 St. Gregory, of Tours, relates his conversation with the monk Wulflaïch, who had lived the life of a Stylite in the diocese of Trèves. 1877Smith & Wace's Dict. Chr. Biog. I. 14/2 In conjunction with a Stylite monk, Daniel, he placed himself at the head of the opposition to the Emperor Basiliscus. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Rel. Knowl. III. 2256 Stylites are mentioned as far down as the twelfth century. 1905Daily Chron. 5 Jan. 4/6 Many as are the various eccentric sects that have appeared in America..no one seems to have thought of reviving the Stylite mode of life.
β1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece lxii. 250 At Patræ was one of the living statues, then not infrequent; a madman standing on a column. To this Stylites did Luke minister for ten years. 1867E. F. Bowden tr. Ctess. Hahn-hahn's Fathers of Desert 369 Another renowned Stylites was Simeon the younger, who died in 596, after he had stood for sixty-eight years upon columns.
Hence stylitic |staɪˈlɪtɪk| a., pertaining to or characteristic of the Stylites. stylitism |ˈstaɪlɪtɪz(ə)m|, the mode of life or the ascetic principles of the Stylites.
1839D. D. Black Hist. Brechin 268 These anchorites were called Stelites, from their living on pillars... The Styletic [sic] system began in the east in the year 460. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. iii. xv. 312 Stylitisms, eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms. 1882H. C. Merivale Faucit of B. II. ii. v. 207 Your little tirade just now was a disguised farewell to the stylitic life, and to roots and water. You are tired of misanthropy as a profession. |