Obs. Also 6 heremitage, -etage. [var. of HERMITAGE: see EREMITE and -AGE.]
1. The state or condition of a hermit.
1582. N. T. (Rhem.), Luke xxi. 1, marg. Solitarinesse or heremitage … is a goodly thing.
1619. Sclater, Exp. 1 Thess. (1630), 50. Iohn Baptist professed a kinde of Eremitage.
2. The dwelling of a hermit.
c. 1400. Maundev., viii. (1839), 93. There ben many … hermytages where heremytes weren wont to duell.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., II. 301. The lordis … Decretit hes for Feachar his bruther To send richt sone … Far furth in France into ane heremetage.
1612. Shelton, Quix., I. IV. xxv. I. 572. A leaden Box, which as he affirmed was found in the ruines of an old Eremitage.
1847. in Craig.
3. The name of a wine (see HERMITAGE).
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 352. The best sorts of French wine are … muscat, frontigniac, eremitage.
