Word Meanings - HERMITARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell.

Related words: (words related to HERMITARY)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• HERMITARY
  A cell annexed to an abbey, for the use of a hermit. Howell.
• HERMIT
  1. A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives. He had been Duke of Savoy, and after a very glorious reign, took on him the habit of a hermit, and retired
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• HERMITICAL
  Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.
• HERMITAGE
  A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drôme. (more info) 1. The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence. Some forlorn and naked hermitage, Remote from all the pleasures of the world. Shak. 2. Etym:
• ANNEXATIONIST
  One who favors annexation.
• ANNEXIONIST
  An annexationist.
• ABBEY
  1. A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings. Note: The men are called monks, and governed by an abbot; the women are called nuns, and
• ANNEXION
  Annexation. Shak.
• HERMITESS
  A female hermit. Coleridge.
• ANNEXMENT
  The act of annexing, or the thing annexed; appendage. Shak.
• ANNEXER
  One who annexes.
• REANNEXATION
  Act of reannexing.
• COANNEX
  To annex with something else.
• DISANNEX
  To disunite; to undo or repeal the annexation of. State Trials
• REANNEX
  To annex again or anew; to reunite. "To reannex that duchy." Bacon.