Definition of Claustral

1. a. Cloistral.

Definition of Claustral

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to a cloister. ¹

2. Adjective. Having cloisters; cloistered. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Claustral

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Claustral

1. Relating to the claustrum. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Claustral

claudications
claudicatory
claudin
claught
claughted
claughting
claughts
clausal
clause
claused
clauses
clausing
clausthalite
clausthalites
claustra
claustral (current term)
claustral layer
claustration
claustrophile
claustrophiles
claustrophilia
claustrophobe
claustrophobes
claustrophobia
claustrophobias
claustrophobic
claustrophobically
claustrophobics
claustrum
claustrum oris

Literary usage of Claustral

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old English Bible, and Other Essays by Francis Aidan Gasquet (1897)
"THE CANTERBURY claustral SCHOOL IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.1 "Vf* EDL^E VAL education is a subject about which ■^-*- much has been written, but about which, ..."

2. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"According to Lyndwood, a custom in certain monasteries of relieving a number of monks, in alternate weeks, from attendance in choir and claustral duties. ..."

3. Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley (1909)
"There were to be two sorts of schools—interior or claustral, intended for monastics only, and exterior or canonical, intended for secular students. ..."

4. Historical and Statistical Account of Dunfermline by Peter Chalmers (1859)
"... but a prior in the abbey was only a claustral prior. In general, the priory lands were erected into a regality, of which the prior was lord. ..."

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