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单词 eremite
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eremiten.

/ˈɛrɪmʌɪt/
Forms: Middle English æremite, Middle English–1600s heremite, heremyte, Middle English herimyte, Middle English– eremite, 1600s eremit.
Etymology: < late Latin erēmīta (medieval Latin herēmīta , < ecclesistical Greek ἐρημίτης , < ἐρημία a desert, < ἐρῆμος uninhabited. In Old French the regular phonetic descendant of late Latin (h)erēmīta was (h)ermite with loss of the middle syllable (see hermit n.); but the Latin word was also adapted in Old French as (h)eremite , and this was taken into Middle English Originally h)eremite and h)ermit(e , hermit n., were employed indiscriminately; but from about the middle of the 17th cent. they have been differentiated in use, hermit being the ordinary and popular word, while eremite (always spelt without the unetymological h) is used either poetically or rhetorically, or with special reference to its primitive use in Greek.
1.
a. One who has retired into solitude from religious motives; a recluse, hermit.Said esp. of the Christian solitaries from the 3rd cent. onwards, as distinguished from the cœnobites, who, though withdrawn from the world, lived as members of a community.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun]
anchorOE
eremitec1200
recluse?c1225
hermitc1275
solitary1435
anchoritea1450
inclusec1460
anchorist1581
cremitt1624
mandrite1844
saint1888
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 85 Seint iohan baptist þe on his childhode bicom eremite.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9384 Þene æremite [c1300 Otho heremite] he isæh cume.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter ci. 7 Heremytis..þat flees þe felaghshipe of men.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 87 Paule þe firste heremyte.
1486 Bk. St. Albans F. vij a An Obseruans of herimytis.
1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland sig. Aivv, in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II A satyre in the wildernesse did talke with Antonie the heremite.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 474 Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers. View more context for this quotation
1764 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. iii. §15 The Eremites..seem to have deserved no other reproach than that of a delirious and extravagant fanaticism.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. iv. 5 His native land..seem'd to him more lone than Eremite's sad cell.
1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist viii. 508 The law of the eremite and the cœnobite corresponds with the transitory dispensation of John.
b. transferred. (By Milton used with allusion to the lit. sense ‘desert-dweller’.)
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1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 8 Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert. View more context for this quotation
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. x. 158 The twilight Eremites of books and closets.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 69 The little eremite Flies gaily forth and sings in sight.
2. In the formal designation of certain monastic orders: e.g. Eremites (Hermits) of St. Augustine, a branch of the Augustinian Friars.
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society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic rule > order observing particular rule > member of particular order
religionc1325
possessioner1395
regular1443
possessionarya1533
eremite1587
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 926/1 At Padua in the church of the heremites of saint Augustine.
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. Bv The mother begun to have almost a perpetuall conversation among those immur'd heremites of Saint Hermogora.
1773 J. Noorthouck New Hist. London 600 The founder of the eremites of St. Anthony.
3. A (? quasi-religious) mendicant, a vagabond (see hermit n.).
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the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar
beggara1250
bidder1362
mendinantc1395
mendivaunt1395
craver1406
thigger1424
gangrela1450
mendicant1474
mendiant1483
eremite1495
Lazarus?a1513
truandals1523
bellyterc1540
clapperdudgeon1567
beggar-man1608
maunder1609
maunderer1611
Abraham cove1612
eleemosynary1643
mumpera1652
jockey1685
progger1685
asker1708
thigster1710
prog1828
shooler1830
cadger1851
panhandler1893
Weary Willie1896
schlepper1901
plinger1904
peg-legger1915
tapper1930
clochard1940
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 2 §3 Every vagabounde heremyte or begger able to labre.
4. attributive.
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a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary (1651) i. v. 17 Let us try To win that old Eremit thing.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. v. 131 Like a grey palmer, or eremite preacher.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xv. 312 Eremite fanaticisms and fakeerisms.
1861 J. G. Sheppard Fall of Rome xi. 587 The eremite and monastic theory of the Christian life which was then almost universally held.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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