rare. [f. L. sōlitārius solitary + -AN.] A recluse, a hermit. Also transf.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv., xviii. 150. There is never seen of them past one at once, which caused the Latins to call them Merulas, that is to say the Solitarians or Hermits or Blackbirds of the Sea.
1661. Sir R. Twysden, Beginners Monast. Life (1698), 8. This Man … gathered together all the dispersed Monks and other Solitarians of Italy.
