Word Meanings - CLOISTRAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. Best become a cloistral exercise. Daniel.

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• CONFINABLE
  Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
• 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
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• 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.
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• CLOISTERER
  One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
• CONFINEMENT
  1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CONFINITY
  Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• CLOISTERAL
  Cloistral. I. Walton.
• RECLUSE
  1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells; usually attached to monasteries. 2. The place where a recluse dwells. Foxe.
• EXERCISE
  exercitum, to drive on, keep, busy, prob. orig., to thrust or drive 1. The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in
• RECLUSELY
  In a recluse or solitary manner.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EXERCISER
  One who exercises.
• CONFINE
  To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
• DANIEL
  A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.
• CLOISTRAL
  Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse. Best become a cloistral exercise. Daniel.
• RECLUSENESS
  Quality or state of being recluse.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• ENCLOISTER
  To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
• UNCLOISTER
  To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.