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anachoretic

anachoretic adjective: living in isolation.

Adjective

anachoretic

  1. Living in isolation.
    • Both the anachoretic and the missionary spirit were strong in the family of Penda; the former chiefly among the women, the latter among the men of the house: nearly all his children and grandchildren died in the odour of sanctity.1861, “The” Archaeological Journal - Volume 18, page 199
    • No longer purely anachoretic or solitary, it begins, like the insect on the flower, to simulate the colour of that new social life from which it draws its own.1869, The Contemporary Review - Volume 11, page 299
  2. Pertaining to anachoresis.
    • If a combination of micro-organisms is injected simultaneously, only one of the bacteria may be demonstrated in the anachoretic abscess.1940, American Journal of Diseases of Children - Volume 60, page 238
    • Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin.1963, Pdm practical dental, page 24

Examples of anachoretic in a sentence

  • Anachoretic behaviour is of two different kinds, permanent and temporary.2012, Giovanni Costa, Behavioural Adaptations of Desert Animals, →ISBN, page 70:
  • Anachoretic pulpitis was suggested as a reality by the work of Robinson and Boling in the early 1940's.1968, Louis Irwin Grossman, Transactions of the International Conference on Endodontics, page 55:
  • The absence of other precipitating lesions was cited as evidence (by exclusion) for anachoretic infection in 51% of maxillary and 59% of mandibular cheek teeth.2013, Jack Easley, Advances in Equine Dentistry, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics, →ISBN:

Antonyms of anachoretic

Questions about anachoretic

What does anachoretic mean?
Anachoretic means living in isolation.
How do you use anachoretic in a sentence?
Anachoretic behaviour is of two different kinds, permanent and temporary.
What part of speech is anachoretic?
Anachoretic is an adjective.

Words near anachoretic in the dictionary

  1. anachoreses
  2. anachoresis
  3. anachoret
  4. anachorete
  5. anachoretes
  6. anachoretic
  7. anachorets
  8. anachoric
  9. anachorism
  10. anachorisms
  11. anachorite

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