“claustral”的英英意思

单词 claustral
释义 claustral, a.|ˈklɔːstrəl|
[ad. late L. claustrāl-is, f. claustrum cloister: see also -al1.]
1. Of, pertaining, or belonging to a cloister or religious house.
c1430tr. Kempis' Imit. i. xxv. (E.E.T.S.), Religiose men þat are streited under claustral discipline.c1449Pecock Repr. 537 Claustral monkis.1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. (1550) 61 b, Dunstane..compelled men and women..to kepe claustrale obedyence.1726Ayliffe Parerg. 6 A conventual Priory, is a Dignity in the Church, but a Claustral Priory is not.1862Hook Lives Abps. II. vi. 322 The commencement of his claustral life.
2. Pertaining to a cloister, colonnade, or piazza.
1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 509 Cumana..set in hir sait claustrall.
3. Cloister-like, savouring of the cloister.
1862Temple Bar Mag. IV. 402 Isolation and claustral seclusion.1877L. Morris Epic. Hades i. 11 The sacred claustral doors of home.1886Farrar Hist. Interpret. 285 The claustral narrowness of mediæval exegesis.

 

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