Word Finder - hermit

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A religious recluse; someone who lives alone for religious reasons; an eremite.

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A recluse; someone who lives alone and shuns human companionship.

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A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.

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A hermit crab.

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A hummingbird in the subfamily Phaethornithinae.

What else does the hermit want for his $100 a week?

The town derives its name from a hermit who lived here in the 7th and 8th centuries.

You are talking about the guy everyone in town calls the hermit - Russell Cade.

In 1095 Peter the Hermit preached the first crusade there.

He's such a hermit.

I'm getting to be a regular hermit.

I am also looking for shrimp, hermit crabs and possibly turbo snails.

Even if you're a hermit living in the forest far from a wireless internet connection, Mario Kart DS will still tickle your fancy.

It is also called the Simeonstor, after a Greek hermit who inhabited it.

After satisfying himself of Rolle's sanity, Dalton's father provided him with food and shelter and a hermit's dress.

Becoming a monk in his childhood, he went to Jerusalem and lived as a hermit.

Whether by his prestige as a hermit and ascetic or by his personal charm, he soon acquired enormous influence over the people.

Legend has made Peter the Hermit the author and originator of the first crusade.

Von Sybel, in his Geschichte des ersten Kreuzzuges, suggests that in the camp of the pauperes (which existed side by side with that of the knights, and grew increasingly large as the crusade told more and more heavily in its progress on the purses of the crusaders) some idolization of Peter the Hermit had already begun, during the first crusade, parallel to the similar glorification of Godfrey by the Lorrainers.

This version of Peter's career seems as old as the Chanson des chetifs, a poem which Raymond of Antioch caused to be composed in honour of the Hermit and his followers, soon after 1130.

This saga found its most piquant beginning in the Hermit's vision at Jerusalem, and there it accordingly began - alike in Albert, followed by William of Tyre and in the Chanson des chetifs, followed by the later Chanson d'Antioche.

For Scaliger was no hermit buried among his books; he was fond of social intercourse and was himself a good talker.

The latter dies, and Josaphat survives as a hermit many years.

He then spent eight years as a hermit in Takpo in southern Tibet, where the comparatively purer teaching of Atisha (referred to above) was still prevalent.

Lake in Early Days of Monasticism on Mount Athos (1909) traces the development through three well-defined stages in the 9th and 10th centuries - (a) the hermit period, (b) the loose organization of hermits in lauras, (c) the stricter rule of the monastery, with definite buildings and fixed rules under an ii-youµevos or abbot.

He was converted by a hermit; but as he had neither the gift of fasting nor that of prayer, he decided to devote himself to a work of charity and set himself to carry wayfarers over a bridgeless river.

Praising solitude, playing the hermit at Vaucluse, he only loved seclusion as a contrast to the society of courts.

In a desert place near Nogent-sur-Seine, he built himself a cabin of stubble and reeds, and turned hermit.

The term was also used of the small sleeping apartments of the monks, or a small apartment used by the anchorite or hermit.

With Anthony the hermit and Pachomius the founder of monasteries, he had maintained personal relations, and the former he had commemorated in his Life of Anthony.

In the solitudes of Uruvela there were at this time three brothers, fire-worshippers and hermit philosophers, who had gathered round them a number of scholars, and enjoyed a considerable reputation as teachers.

He served as a conscript in one of Constantine's campaigns, and on his return became a Christian (314); he at once went to live an eremitical life near Dendera by the Nile, putting himself under the guidance of an aged hermit.

The island is the Lopadusa of Strabo, and the Lipadosa of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, the scene of the landing of Roger of Sicily and of his conversion by the hermit.

The song-birds are well represented in the hermit thrush, wood thrush, Wilson's thrush (or veery), brown thrasher, robin, blue bird, bobolink, meadow lark, gold finch, &c. Among the game birds are the ruffed grouse (partridge), quail, prairie hen and wild turkey.

The parish - originally called Aberbrothock and now incorporated with Arbroath for administrative purposes - takes its name from a saint or hermit whose chapel was situated at Grange of Conon, 32 m.

The experiences of the religious mystic are paralleled with the ecstatic vision in which the philosophical hermit sees a world of pure intelligences, where birth and decease are unknown.

Touchstone was the sire of Newminster (1848), who begat Lord Clifden, Adventurer, and the Hermit, as well as of Orlando (1841), sire of Teddington (1848).

Birdcatcher was a chestnut, so also were Stockwell and his brother Rataplan, Manganese, Mandragora, Thormanby, Kettledrum, St Albans, Blair Athol, Regalia, Formosa, Hermit, Marie Stuart, Doncaster, George Frederick, Apology, Craig Millar, Prince Charlie, Rayon d'Or and Bend Or.

Up until now he had given her the impression he was a complete hermit.

Have you had time to make up your mind to come out of your hermit cave and do some serious fishing?

Catching hermit crabs, watching bright red sticky beadlet anemones catch a passing shrimp, watching the slippery butterfish vanish beneath a rock.

His composition of three meditations to a hermit makes him the only Cistercian in England during this period to attempt a purely spiritual work.

Whilst we were rock pooling by the beach my daughter found a small colony of what I assume were hermit crabs.

There he was found by Salomon, a weapons engineer who had become a hermit on the ghost world.

Came across a hermit Crab - well a rather crabby old hermit, believed last seen out in public twelve years ago.

Anne Kirkman sent in a song about an early 19th century hermit in Sunderland a rare piece of dialect writing for that town.

St Clement's Isle - a small rocky islet once the home to an ancient hermit lies just offshore of the harbor wall.

Celtic feast day of ' Brynach ', sixth century Irish man who became a solitary hermit.

So Joseph had a small hermitage built further up the road from the house and he tried to employ a professional hermit.

Born in Swabia in Germany, he became a hermit on Mt Etzel in Switzerland, St Meinrad's former hermitage.

The calcareous tube worm Serpula vermicularis forms twisting masses of tubes on the shell occupied by the hermit crab.

This is the largest British hermit crab, reaching a size of around 15 centimeters across the legs.

One section of the site is KidZone, an area aimed at activities for Kids who own land hermit crabs as pets.

Did with the aged hermit toil, With their own hands in daily moil, Hard laboring rude the barren soil.

Surely Pershing as well as Peter the Hermit was merely a rather restless gentleman who found his health improved by frequent change of scene.