cloistral

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Bonnet saw that a female plant-louse, which he had kept in cloistral isolation, and rigidly removed from contact with males, had on the eleventh day (after forming a new skin for the fourth time) a living daughter, and during the next twenty days ninety-four other daughters; and that all of them went on to reproduce in the same way without any contact with males.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or suggesting a cloister; secluded.
  2. adjective Living in a cloister.

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  • A kind of cloistral quietude pervaded the place; the devotees who came in spoke in low voices, as if in a confessional, slipped their purchases into their bags furtively, and went off with downcast eyes. —  His Masterpiece
  • There was an air of queer, cloistral or prisonlike security in their very look. —  The Middle of Things
  • Bonnet saw that a female plant-louse, which he had kept in cloistral isolation, and rigidly removed from contact with males, had on the eleventh day (after forming a new skin for the fourth time) a living daughter, and during the next twenty days ninety-four other daughters; and that all of them went on to reproduce in the same way without any contact with males. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
  • "He's the kind of person that you might suppose gave the Catholics a hint for the cloistral life; he's a cloistered nature--the nature that atones and suffers for. —  A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete
  • The elegance of the two staircases which are placed at each end of the chateau of Louis XII., the delicate carving and sculpture, so original in design, which abound everywhere, the remains of which, though time has done its worst, still charm the antiquary, all, even to the semi-cloistral distribution of the apartments, reveals a great simplicity of manners. —  Catherine De Medici
 

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  1. Formerly also cloisteral, from cloister + -al, after Middle Latin claustralis: see claustral.
 

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/ˈklɔɪstrəl/
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