cloistral

adj

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.

  1. derived from cloistral
  2. derived from claustrālis

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.

    • As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.
    • Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.
  2. Sheltered from the world

    Sheltered from the world; monastic.

    • Speak not! he is consecrated— / Breathe no breath across his eyes: / Lifted up and separated / On the hand of God he lies, / In a sweetness beyond touching,—held in cloistral sanctities.
  3. Secluded.

    • [C]loistral avenues, / Where silence dwells if music be not there: […]
    • Then, responsive to the bird’s insistence, / From the margin of some cloistral shore / Came a murmur up the hollow distance, / “On the morrow will I ope the door!”

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA