a. Also 5 heremytyke. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to an eremite.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 423/2. I do seke a place for to lede my lyf heremytyke and solytarylye.
1859. I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 170. The romance of the eremitic life must be abandoned as impracticable.
1864. Lowell, Fireside Trav., 75. The eremitic instinct is not peculiar to the Thebais.
