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stylites: see Simeon Stylites Simeon Stylites, Saint [Gr.,= of a pillar], d. 459?, Syrian hermit. He lived for more than 35 years on a small platform on top of a high pillar. He had many imitators (called stylites) and gained the reverence of the whole Christian world. Feast: Jan. 5.
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Stylites

medieval ascetics; resided atop pillars. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1045]

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No references found			It was at this point that he definitely condemned Simeon Stylites as a sybaritic fraud. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context The inquest was held on Friday at the Stylites Arms in the village. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Christie, Agatha View in context			stutter tone Stuttering Stuttgart Stuttgart Ballet Stuve chart Stuxnet Stuyvesant Stuyvesant, Peter Stuyvesant, Petrus Stviri STX Sty stye Stygian Styginae Stygocaridacea Stylasterina Style Style Moderne Style Rayonnant style sheet styled text stylet stylist Stylistics Stylites Stylites, St. Simeon Stylization Stylobate Stylodium styloglossus stylohyoid styloid Stylolite stylomastoid Stylommatophora stylopodium stylotypite Styloviridae Stylus stylus printing stymie Stymphalian Birds Styne, Jule styphnic acid Stypocapitellidae styptic Styr Styracaceae styramate Styrene			styling styling styling mousse stylisation stylisations stylise stylised stylises stylish stylish stylishly stylishly stylishness stylishness stylising stylist stylist stylistic stylistic stylistic stylistic stylistic stylistically stylistics stylistics Stylistique Comparée du Français et de l'Anglais Stylists Stylists stylite stylite Stylites Stylites, St. Simeon stylitic stylitism stylization stylization stylizations stylize stylize stylized Stylized fact Stylized facts stylizer stylizes stylizing stylo stylo- stylo- Stylo-mastoid foramen stylobate stylobate stylobates stylobates Stylodium Styloglossal Styloglossum styloglossus styloglossus Styloglossus muscle Styloglossus muscle Styloglossus muscle

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