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Definition of Cloistral
1. Adjective. Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
Similar to: Unworldly
Derivative terms: Cloister, Convent, Convent, Monastic
Definition of Cloistral
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse.
Definition of Cloistral
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister. ¹
2. Adjective. Sheltered from the world; monastic. ¹
3. Adjective. Secluded. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloistral
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloistral
Literary usage of Cloistral
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"His life at Lindisfarne in its cloistral and in its external aspect. — His extreme
modesty. — He becomes a hermit in a cave of the Islo of Fame. ..."
2. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"In a poem respect ing the religious orders, written about the end of the twelfth
century, the source of all •danger to the cloistral discipline was thus ..."
3. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"... bond of union among the undergraduates generally than there was a hundred or
fifty years ago, when the College was comparatively a cloistral seclusion, ..."
4. Essays Educational by Azarias (1905)
"cloistral SCHOOLS.1 I. L name this book only to call attention to the character
of its statements. They are many of them wild and misleading, We are told, ..."
5. The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey (1851)
"... calls them crypto-porticus (cloistral colonnades) ; and Ulpian calls them
refugia (sanctuaries, or places of refuge) ; St. Ambrose notices them under ..."
6. The Great Schools of England by Howard Staunton (1865)
"The peculiarity of both is in their combination of the cloistral, ... Two classes
of Schools, however, had a better fate than befell the rest—the cloistral ..."