eremitare

eremitare (herem-) [LL = to make desert, dry up, trans.] , to live as a hermit. sub eodem tempore quo praefatus vir ‥ ~are initiavit Felix Guthl. 29; ~andi gratia illo advenit et tamen monachi habitum gessit R. Cold. Cuthb. 27; abbas ‥ quemdam monachum suum ‥ in loco Everdwic ~are licentiavit MonA II 600b.