a. Also 7 heremitall. [ad. F. heremital, f. late L. (h)erēmīta: see EREMITE and -AL.] Of or belonging to an eremite, characteristic of an eremite.
1613. Withers, Abuses Stript & Whipt, II. Sat. iii. Some hold them wise and vertuous that possesse An Heremitall solitarinesse.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor (1849), lxviii. 146. An eremital way of life would have been more rational.
