in church-history, monks of the Greek church, divided into three degrees: the novices, called archari; the ordinary professed, called microchemi; and the more perfect, called megalochemi; they are likewise divided into cenobites, anchorites, and recluses. The cenobites are employed in reciting their offices from midnight to sun-set; they are obliged to make three genuflexions at the door of the choir, and, returning, to bow to the right and to the left, to their brethren. The anchorites retire from the conversation of the world, and live in hermitages in the neighbourhood of the monasteries; they cultivate a little spot of ground, and never go out but on Sundays and holidays to perform their devotions at the next monastery. As for the recluses, they shut themselves up in grottos and caverns on the tops of mountains, which they never go out of, abandoning themselves entirely to Providence; they live on the alms sent them by the neighbouring monasteries.