a. rare; also 7 -itical; and see ANACHORETICAL. [f. prec. + -AL 1.] Resembling, or after the manner of, an anchoret.
a. 1667. Jer. Taylor, Serm., I. 278 (L.). Those severe and anchoritical and philosophical persons.
1844. Lingard, Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858), II. xii. 240. Leading an anachoretical life amid the ruins of some deserted abbey.
