Cloister \Clois"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloistered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Cloistering.]
To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the
world; to immure.
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None among them are thought worthy to be styled
religious persons but those that cloister themselves up
in a monastery. --Sharp.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Cloistered \Clois"tered\, a.
1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and
vestal nuns." --Hudibras.
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In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell,
Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
--Shenstone.
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2. Furnished with cloisters. --Sir H. Wotton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
cloistered
adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious
vows [syn: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]
2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered
pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade
tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: reclusive, secluded,
sequestered]
WordNet (r) 2.0
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloistered":
anchoritic, at rest, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged,
blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calm, claustral, closed-in,
confined, conventical, conventual, cool, cooped, cordoned,
cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detained, domestic,
dwindling, ebbing, enclosed, eremitic, even-tenored, fenced,
halcyon, hedged, hemmed, hermitic, hermitish, hushed, immured,
impassive, impounded, imprisoned, in confinement, incarcerated,
isolated, jailed, kept in, leaguered, mewed, moldering, monachal,
monasterial, monastic, pacific, paled, peaceable, peaceful, penned,
pent, pent-up, placid, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, railed,
recluse, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained,
restricted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered,
shut in, shut up, shut-in, smooth, stay-at-home, still,
still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding,
tranquil, unagitated, under restraint, undisturbed, unmoved,
unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, walled, walled-in,
waning
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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