Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cloistered"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cloistered \Clois"tered\, a.
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.
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cloistered
adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious
vows [syn: {cloistral}, {conventual}, {monastic}, {monastical}]
2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered
pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade
tree"; 'a secluded romantic spot" [syn: {reclusive}, {secluded},
{sequestered}]
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