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cloistral, a.|ˈklɔɪstrəl|
Also 7 cloysteral(l, cloystrall, 9 cloisteral.
[f. cloister + -al1, after L. claustrāl-is claustral.]
1. Pertaining to a cloister; monastic.
1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia (1717) 151 A Cloistral Exercise, Where Men shut out retir'd, and sequestred..seem to sympathize With innocent and plain Simplicity. 1651Reliq. Wotton (1672) 39 Making a holy retreat to a Cloysteral life. 1868M. Pattison Academ. Org. 328 The pressure of practical life makes ‘culture for culture's sake’ sound like cloistral and pedantic talk.
2. Of persons: Dwelling in a cloister; belonging to a monastic order. Also absol.
1624Donne Serm. Rev. vii. 9 Salvation is a more extensive thing..then sullen cloystrall, that have walled salvation in a monastery..take it to be. a1631― Poems (1650) 189 So cloysterall men..Have Vertue in Melancholy.
3. Of the type of a cloister.
1844I. Williams Baptistery 249 Through cloistral glades. 1883Harper's Mag. 383/2 The house is rather cloistral. |
