a.; also 9– -itic. [f. prec. + -IC, after Gr. ἀναχωρητικός.] Of or pertaining to an anchoret.
1661. Origen’s Opin., in Phœnix (1721), I. 6. A Monastick and Anchoretick Life.
1829. I. Taylor, Enthus., viii. 203. In an enumeration of the natural causes of the anchoretic life, the influence of scenery should not be overlooked.
1862. Latham, Channel Isl. III. xiii. (ed. 2), 326. Their discipline was, essentially, anchoritic and recluse.
