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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.

 

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