Word Meanings - CLOISTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to CLOISTERED)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - HEARTWOOD
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - HEART
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle - FURNISHMENT
The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel. - PROUDLING
A proud or haughty person. Sylvester. - PROUD
prout, prud, prut, AS. prut; akin to Icel. pruedhr stately, handsome, 1. Feeling or manifesting pride, in a good or bad sense; as: Possessing or showing too great self-esteem; overrating one's excellences; hence, arrogant; haughty; lordly; - SELFISHLY
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. - HEARTBROKEN
Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. - SELFISHNESS
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without - HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton. - CLOISTER
claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere, clausum, to close. See 1. An inclosed place. Chaucer. 2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that - HEARTEN
1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. - HEARTDEEP
Rooted in the heart. Herbert. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - HEARTENER
One who, or that which, heartens, animates, or stirs up. W. Browne. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - PROUDISH
Somewhat proud. Ash. - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - CLOISTERED
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. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - INDWELLING
Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.