Word Meanings - INCLOISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To confine as in a cloister; to cloister. Lovelace.
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- 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. - 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 - CLOISTERAL
Cloistral. I. Walton. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - 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 - 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.