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eremitical, a.|ɛrɪˈmɪtɪkəl|
Also 6 heremeticall, 7–8 -itical, 6–8 ermetical(l.
[f. prec. + -al1.]
1. Of or pertaining to an eremite; characteristic of or habitual to an eremite.
1577Harrison Descr. Brit. ix. in Holinshed (1807) I. 46 The heremeticall profession was onelie allowed of in Britaine. 1601F. Godwin Bps. of Eng. 497 Affecting much an Eremiticall and solitarie life. 1693‘G. D'Emilianne’ Hist. Monast. Ord. xii. 101 That he might learn the Eremetical Trade. 1814L. Hunt Feast of Poets (1815) Notes 97 The latter [Wordsworth]..nourishes that eremitical vagueness of sensation,—that making a business of reverie, etc. 1876J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. II. iii. ii. 314 [An] opportunity of becoming acquainted with these..eremitical stations when he became their Bishop.
2. Of or pertaining to an order of Eremite friars. See eremite 2.
1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 401 The church of St. Philip and St. James belongs to the eremetical fathers of St. Augustine. 1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. I. 324 Here formerly stood the only Eremitical convent in the whole kingdom. 1857S. Winkworth tr. Tauler's Life & Serm. 89 The eremitical Cœlestines..seem also to have been offshoots from these Spiritual Franciscans. |