Word Meanings - ENCLOISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.

Related words: (words related to ENCLOISTER)

• 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
• 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.
• CLOISTERER
  One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
• CLOISTERAL
  Cloistral. I. Walton.
• 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.
• INCLOISTER
  To confine as in a cloister; to cloister. Lovelace.