" ANACHORETE (ANA'CHORETE) ANACHORITE (ANA'CHORITE) n.s.[sometimes viciously writen anchorite;Greek] A monk, who, with the leave of his superiour, leaves the convent for a more austere and solitary life. Yet lies not love dead here, but here doth sit,Vow'd to this trench, like an anachorite. Donne. "