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Cloistered definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOISTERED, pp.
1. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a monastery.
2. a. Solitary; retired from the world.
3. Built with peristyles or piazzas; inclosed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, 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: cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1581 1. being or living in or as if in a cloister 2. providing shelter from contact with the outside world <the cloistered atmosphere of a small college>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 secluded, sheltered. 2 monastic.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cloistered Clois"tered, a. 1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. ``Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.'' --Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. --Shenstone. 2. Furnished with cloisters. --Sir H. Wotton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. --Sharp.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you have a cloistered way of life, you live quietly and are not involved in the normal busy life of the world around you. ...the cloistered world of royalty. = sheltered ADJ: usu ADJ n

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