Cloistering

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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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