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Cloistering definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOISTERING, ppr. Shutting up in a monastery; confining; secluding from the world.

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.