eremite

  • 61er|e|mite — «EHR uh myt», noun. a hermit, especially a religious one: »Like nature s patient, sleepless eremite (Keats). ╂[< Old French eremite, learned borrowing from Late Latin ērēmīta < Greek erēm ēs < erêmos uninhabited. See etym. of doublet… …

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  • 62Eremitic — Er e*mit ic, Eremitical Er e*mit ic*al, a. Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. An eremitical life in the woods. Fuller. The eremitic instinct. Lowell. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 63Eremitical — Eremitic Er e*mit ic, Eremitical Er e*mit ic*al, a. Of or pertaining to an eremite; hermitical; living in solitude. An eremitical life in the woods. Fuller. The eremitic instinct. Lowell. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 64hermit — noun Etymology: Middle English heremite, eremite, from Anglo French, from Late Latin eremita, from Late Greek erēmitēs, from Greek, adjective, living in the desert, from erēmia desert, from erēmos desolate Date: 12th century 1. a. one that… …

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  • 66eremitical — adjective see eremite …

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  • 67eremitism — noun see eremite …

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  • 68El Dorado — ( Spanish for the golden one ) is a legend that began with the story of a South American tribal chief who covered himself with gold dust and would dive into a lake of pure mountain water.The legend began in the 1530s, in the Andes of present day… …

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  • 69Fakir — A fakir or faqir is a Sufi, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic. Derived from faqr (فقر Arabic), Lit: poverty. [ God Speaks , Meher Baba, Dodd Meade, 1955, 2nd Ed. p. 305] The word is usually used to refer to either… …

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  • 70Sunny Murray — James Marcellus Arthur Sunny Murray (born Idabel, Oklahoma in 1936) is one of the pioneers of the free jazz style of drumming. Murray spent his youth in Philadelphia before moving to New York City where he began playing with Cecil Taylor: We… …

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