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hermitage (1155)

hermitage (1155)

ermitage,  ermytage;  hermitag  
  FEW:  eremita 3,236b Gdf:  hermitage 4,467b GdfC:  ermitage 9,501b TL: ermitage 3,764 DEAF:  ermite (ermitage)  DMF:  ermitage  TLF:  ermitage  OED:  hermitage n.  MED:  hermitage n.  DMLBS:  eremitagium 792b

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1monasticarchit.eccl.hermitage, habitation of a hermit
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Enterrez fud en un boscage Lez Kynon, en un hermitage  Brut WACE 13002
( c.1165; MS: s.xiii2 )  Sempres irums, Tut l’ermitage cercherums  marie Lais 186.998
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 )  Por tant guerpit le moniage Benoit, si vint a l'hermitage Ou plus fut al monde en essample, Si rendit fruit cent tant plus ample  Dial Greg SATF 4438
( MS: s.xiii2 )  secundum ordinis sui dispositum commedunt quoniam heremite conversantes in heremo (gloss: hermitag) radices et fructus silvestres et agrestes colligunt ad alimentum  TLL i 220 and i 230
( 1372 )  Sachez nous avoir granté a frere Richard de Goldbourne, heremite, la garde del hermitage de la chapelle de Saint Martin  GAUNT1 i 180
2geog.desert, wilderness
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  un frere [...] Ki lunges out en hermitage Servi Jesu [...], vint sa sorur visiter En la cité  Mirur3 5730
( MS: s.xivm )  de la prophecie de Balaam et de .xlij. mansiouns par l'ermytage  S Jer 2vb

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See also:

hermite  hermitoire 
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