Cloistered

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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