a. rare. [f. Gr. ἀναχωρητικ-ός of the nature of an ANCHORET + -AL 1.] After the manner of an anchoret. (See ANCHORETICAL.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Anachoretical, Anachoretal, belonging to solitariness or Hermites.
1845. G. Petrie, Eccles. Archit. Irel., 113. He betook himself to an anachoretical life.
