anachoretic
English
Adjective
anachoretic
- Living in isolation.
- 1861, “The” Archaeological Journal - Volume 18, page 199:
- Both the anachoretic and the missionary spirit were strong in the family of Penda; the former chiefly among the women, the latter among the men of the house: nearly all his children and grandchildren died in the odour of sanctity.
- 1869, The Contemporary Review - Volume 11, page 299:
- No longer purely anachoretic or solitary, it begins, like the insect on the flower, to simulate the colour of that new social life from which it draws its own.
- 2012, Giovanni Costa, Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals, →ISBN, page 70:
- Anachoretic behaviour is of two different kinds, permanent and temporary.
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- Pertaining to anachoresis.
- 1940, American Journal of Diseases of Children - Volume 60, page 238:
- If a combination of micro-organisms is injected simultaneously, only one of the bacteria may be demonstrated in the anachoretic abscess.
- 1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24:
- Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin.
- 1968, Louis Irwin Grossman, Transactions of the International Conference on Endodontics, page 55:
- Anachoretic pulpitis was suggested as a reality by the work of Robinson and Boling in the early 1940's.
- 2013, Jack Easley, Advances in Equine Dentistry, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics, →ISBN:
- The absence of other precipitating lesions was cited as evidence (by exclusion) for anachoretic infection in 51% of maxillary and 59% of mandibular cheek teeth.
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Antonyms
- (living the life of a hermit): cenobitic
Translations
relating to or living in religious reclusion
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