anachoretic

English

Adjective

anachoretic

1. 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.

2. 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.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “living the life of a hermit”): cenobitic

Translations

relating to or living in religious reclusion

• Portuguese: anacorético