stylite
IPA: stˈaɪɫaɪt
noun
- (Christianity, historical) A Christian ascetic in ancient times who lived alone on top of a tall pillar.
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Examples of "stylite" in Sentences
- To choose a stone perch in center of the sea where you will stay, a stylite, unaffected
- There was a time a "stylite" was a saint who lived atop a pillar or a post in some forsaken desert.
- He's said to be as rich as Croesus and as reclusive as a stylite, and that's all anyone knows of him.
- At the end of the rite, however, the patriarch ascended to give Holy Communion to the stylite and to receive it from him.
- I'm not yet some fanatic stylite, sitting on a pillar, waiting for the snap of the seventh seal, so I am somewhat familiar with the world around me.
- Soon the report of this extraordinary existence spread from village to village, and the labourers of the valley came on Sundays, with their wives and children, to look at the stylite.
- Old Cotta, who was inspecting the canals and the navigation of the Nile, had many times expressed a desire to see the stylite and the new city, to which the name of Stylopolis had been given.
- It, indeed, sent the stylite to his pillar, the hermit to the wilderness, the ascetic to the scourge and hair-cloth shirt; but it also led the warrior to the Holy Land, the beggar to the castle-hearth, and the workman to the building of the
- My desire to go and hear Berma received a fresh stimulus which enabled me to await the coming of the matinée with impatience and with joy; having gone to take up, in front of the column on which the playbills were, my daily station, as excruciating, of late, as that of a stylite saint, I had seen there, still moist and wrinkled, the complete bill of
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