anchoretic

His anchoretic lifestyle was remarkably harsher than that of his predecessors.

Another modification of the rule of Pachomius was a combination of the cenobitic (communal) with the anchoretic (eremitic) life.

The great communal life of a Christian monastery is called cenobitic, as opposed to the anchoretic (or anchoritic) life of an anchorite and the eremitic life of a hermit.

Eustathius of Sebaste had already labored in Pontus in behalf of the anchoretic life, and Basil revered him on that account, although they differed over dogmatic points, which gradually separated the two.