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Definition of Cloistered

1. Adjective. Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.

2. Adjective. Providing privacy or seclusion. "A secluded romantic spot"

Definition of Cloistered

1. a. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.

Definition of Cloistered

1. Adjective. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary. ¹

2. Adjective. isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence ¹

3. Adjective. naive, lacking in worldliness ¹

4. Adjective. Furnished with cloisters. ¹

5. Verb. (past of cloister) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cloistered

1. cloister [v] - See also: cloister

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloistered

cloggily clogginess clogging cloggy clogs clogs to clogs in three generations clogwyn clogwyns cloison cloisonn

cloisonne cloisonnes cloisons cloister cloisteral cloistered (current term) cloisterer cloisterers cloistering cloisterlike

cloisters cloistral cloistre cloistres cloistress cloistresses cloke cloked clokes cloking

Literary usage of Cloistered

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

1. Lombard Architecture by Arthur Kingsley Porter (1917)
"cloistered VAULTS The cloistered vault was probably one of the many features which ... At least there undoubtedly was a cloistered vault in the building of ..."

2. Stereotomy by Arthur Willard French, Howard Chapin Ives (1902)
"The cloistered arch is formed by removing those parts of each cylinder which lie ... 38 and 39 are isometric views of the groined and cloistered arches. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"This evidently to save the gardens or the patch of grass from too constant and unnecessary invasion. — RS cloistered ARCH. Same as cloistered Vault. ..."

4. Stereotomy: Problems in Stone Cutting. In Four Classes. I. Plane-sided by Samuel Edward Warren (1875)
"The arches being at right angles, let the circular cylinder be real between OH and OH", and the elliptic one, between OH and OY, forming a cloistered arch. ..."

5. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, Francis Whiting Halsey (1909)
"VI OF FUGITIVE AND cloistered VIRTUE' I CAST NOT praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and ..."

6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"A bard in the thirteenth century has these words, “Woe be to him that infringes upon the eMs,” the cloistered or enclosed land of the church. ..."

7. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"Mary Carolyn Davies cloistered To-night the little girl-nun died. Her hands were laid Across her breast; the last sun tried To kiss her quiet braid; ..."

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