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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
encloister .
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Examples
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According to the present common law every convent or monastery of regulars must, on its completion, be encloistered.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Strictly speaking, the whole enclosed space -- house and garden -- ought to be encloistered.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Women are strictly forbidden to enter the encloistered portions of a house of male religious.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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The smoke also of the train as it skirts the Downs is part and parcel of what has become (thanks to the trains) our encloistered country life; the smoke of the trains is a little smudge of human activity which permits us to match our incomparable seclusion with the hurly-burly from which we have fled.
On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Volpatte, after half an hour of fruitless paces and encloistered loneliness.
Under Fire: the story of a squad Henri Barbusse 1904
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"Why, since no man is born to damnation, and since by your reasoning the world must mean damnation, then all men should be encloistered, and soon, thus, there would be an end to man.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912
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