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Definition of Cloistered

Cloistered
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.
Cloistered
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.
Cloister
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.

Meaning of Cloistered from wikipedia

- workmen, whose lives and works went forward outside and around the cloister." Cloistered (or claustral) life is also another name for the monastic life of...
- monastic community became a Cloistered Emperor (****anese 太上法皇 Daijō Hōō). There were retired emperors, including cloistered emperors, both before and after...
- a Buddhist monk. The last cloistered emperor was Emperor Reigen (r. 1663-1687) in the Edo period. Emperor Daijō Cloistered rule Ponsonby-Fane, Richard...
- The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated...
- undergraduate eating clubs at Princeton University The Cloisters (disambiguation) Cloistered clergy, religious orders whose members strictly separate...
- Look up cloisters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan dedicated to the art...
- Story of a Cloistered Nun (Italian: Storia di una monaca di clausura, released as Unholy Convent and Diary of a Cloistered Nun) is a 1973 nunsploitation...
- The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is an historical novel by the British author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the travels of a young...
- The Ephrata Cloister or Ephrata Community was a religious community, established in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel at Ephrata, in what is now Lancaster...
- In architecture, a cloister vault (also called a pavilion vault) is a vault with four convex surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above the...