单词 | anchorism |
释义 | anchorismn. Now rare. The practice of living as an anchorite; an anchorite's way of life; solitary or secluded existence; = anchoritism n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] > life of reclusionc1430 anchorism1573 anchoritism1660 recluse1665 hermitship1825 1573 T. Cartwright Replye to Answere Whitgifte 7 We bring in..no Monachisme or Anchorisme. c1597 R. Naunton Let. 20 Jan. in G. Ungerer Spaniard in Elizabethan Eng. (1976) II. 109 He said that this forwardnes of theirs to thrust him into this Anchorisme was but to remoue him as a blocke that lay in their Spanish peaces way. 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 189 He took fiue vizards to conceal his crimes: From Egypt Anchorisme and retirednesse. 1795 E. Fenwick Secresy III. xvii. 148 You don't profess anchorism. 1854 Knickerbocker Nov. 505 Seldom—very seldom does..[my heart] beat as in the days of my boyhood; seldom emerge from its deep anchorism. 2005 G. Scheibelreiter in P. Fouracre New Cambr. Medieval Hist. I. xxv. 704 The Egyptian style of anchorism was maintained in the sixth century through the translation to Italy of the Apophthegmata Patrum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1573 |
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