a. rare. [f. ANCHORET, -ITE + -ISH.] Partaking of the character or practice of an anchoret; reclusive, hermit-like.
1830. G. P. R. James, Darnley (1840), 4. A solitary duck … passing its anchoritish hours in fishing.
1877. Lytteil, Landmarks, III. vii. 134. The active life of the clergy in teaching the people was confined to a fraction of their time, and all the rest of it spent in anchoretish devotions.
