Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cloistering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cloister \Clois"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloistered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Cloistering}.]
To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the
world; to immure.
None among them are thought worthy to be styled
religious persons but those that cloister themselves up
in a monastery. --Sharp.
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