Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Furnished with cloisters; arranged in the form of cloister.
- Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a convent.
- Solitary; retired from the world; secret; concealed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
- adj. isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence
- adj. naive, lacking in worldliness
- adj. Furnished with cloisters.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of cloister.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.
- adj. Furnished with cloisters.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
- adj. providing privacy or seclusion
Examples
“Skeptics said the initial aid sums -- as well as Bush's decision at first to remain cloistered on his Texas ranch for the Christmas holiday rather than speak in person about the tragedy -- showed scant appreciation for the magnitude of suffering and for the rescue and rebuilding work facing such nations as Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and Indonesia.”
“There are some who imagine that this way of discerning the will of God is impracticable for persons in the world, and that it is only out of the world, as they call the cloistered life, that one can have recourse to it.”
“5The proscription against women talking found fertile ground in cloistered life because silence was one essential element of the monastic environment. 11 The absence of sound was an important monastic practice and the presence of silence accentuated the sounds that did exist.”
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“The principal reason of the success of these retreats, called cloistered to distinguish them from the parochial retreats open to all, is their very necessity.”
“Haley writes: "The SSPX, as I understand it, don't want to engage in the salvation of souls in "cloistered" communities independent of the local Bishops.”
“The SSPX, as I understand it, don't want to engage in the salvation of souls in "cloistered" communities independent of the local Bishops.”
“Living by rules, like some kind of cloistered monk of musical taste.”
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“A Dublin education, but a life spent, as he put it, 'cloistered' in the likes of Cambridge, Oxford, St Andrews, and now Edinburgh.”
“The abbot had temporarily readjusted the "cloistered" areas of the abbey to give the refugees access to virtually everything except the monks 'sleeping quarters.”
“The pope grants dispensations to all who are unable to go in person to the stations, such as cloistered religious, prisoners, the sick, etc., who are free to visit their own church and say the prayers prescribed.”
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
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she's such a joy.
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Macabre
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bumptious, Dharma Bums, petulant, Teddy boy, oaty, unstinting, aspersion, attrait, aesthetic pathology, venerated, aberrant, cavil and 62 more...
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sed libera nos a malo
One of the last vestiges of my Catholic upbringing is my interest in and love for language that pertains to it.
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craptacular, moist, truculent, cloistered, slaphappy, prudent
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