Meaning of CLOISTERED
| Pronunciation: | | 'kloysturd
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- [adj] 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"
- [adj] of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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| | Synonyms: | | cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical, private, reclusive, secluded, sequestered, unworldly |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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