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hermitage|ˈhɜːmɪtɪdʒ|
Forms: 3–4 ermitage, 4–5 er-, her-, heremytage, 5 armitage, (6 heremet-, 7 heremitage), 4– hermitage. See also eremitage.
[a. OF. hermitage = Pr. ermitatge, It. eremitaggio, med.L. (h)er(e)mitagium, f. L. erēmīta, med.L. herēmīta: see prec. and -age.]
1. The habitation of a hermit.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 138/1131 To þe Ermitage of Semplingham. a1300Cursor M. 8161 Right vnto þat hermitage, [v. rr. ermi-, ermy-, hermytage] Þe king com to and his barnage. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 13989 Til heremytages and til abbeyes, Þer men holy bodies leyes. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xi. 46 Þare er also many kirkes and chapelles and hermytages. a1500Chaucer's Dreme 330 Ech seven yers mote of usage, Visite the hevenly armitage. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. xix. 106 They doe not dwell in Hermitages solitarily. 1632Milton Penseroso 168 May at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxxiii. 220 It being only an Heremitage. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour IV. 265 Near the city [Nants] is a famous hermitage, situated on a rock. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 124 The other contains a habitation (formerly, I believe, a hermitage).
b. transf. A solitary or secluded dwelling-place.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love (1700) 159 My urgent Occasions..will recall me to morrow Morning to my own Western Hermitage. 1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 119 Mindes innocent and quiet take That [prison] for an hermitage. 1781Fletcher Lett. Wks. 1795 VII. 235, I am not without hope of seeing you in London before you see your future hermitage. 1827Pollok Course T. v, Vesper looked forth From out her western hermitage, and smiled.
c. The condition of a hermit. rare.
1582N. T. (Rhem.) Luke xxi. 1 marg., Solitarinesse or heremitage..is a goodly thing. 1893P. White Hist. Clare 10 [There he] lived his lonely life of hermitage.
2. Name of a French wine produced from vineyards on a hill near Valence: so called from a ruin on the summit supposed to have been a hermit's cell.
1680Shadwell Woman Capt. i. 5 (Stanf.) Vin de Bon, Vin Celestine, and Hermitage, and all the Wines upon the fruitful Rhone. 1709Addison Tatler No. 131 ⁋7 Two more [drops] of the same Kind heightened it into a perfect Languedoc: From thence it passed into a florid Hermitage. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour IV. 36 Hermitage for those who can bear a strong wine, at three livres a bottle. 1815M. Birkbeck Journ. France 43 We approach Tournon, from whence comes the famous Hermitage wine. 1822Magic Lantern 9, I thought his white hermitage better than his claret. |