Hermit
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A spiced molasses cooky, often containing chopped raisins and nuts.
(2): ( n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
(3): ( n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.
Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [2]
A person who retires into solitude for the purpose of devotion. Who were the first hermits cannot easily be known; though Paul, surnamed the hermit, is generally reckoned the first. The persecutions of Decius and Valerian were supposed to have occasioned their first rise.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(Gr. Ἐρημός , Desert), one devoted to religious solitude; properly, the solitude of a wilderness. It became, at a later period, the name of certain classes of monks. (See Monasticism); (See Mone).
