Cloistered

cloistered
    adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under
           religious vows [syn: {cloistered}, {cloistral},
           {conventual}, {monastic}, {monastical}]
    2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic
       world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered
       pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree";
       "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: {cloistered}, {reclusive},
       {secluded}, {sequestered}]
    

Cloister \Clois"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloistered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Cloistering}.]
   To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the
   world; to immure.
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         None among them are thought worthy to be styled
         religious persons but those that cloister themselves up
         in a monastery.                          --Sharp.
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Cloistered \Clois"tered\, a.
   1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and
      vestal nuns." --Hudibras.
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            In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell,
            Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.
                                                  --Shenstone.
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   2. Furnished with cloisters. --Sir H. Wotton.
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99 Moby Thesaurus words for "cloistered":
      anchoritic, at rest, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged,
      blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calm, claustral, closed-in,
      confined, conventical, conventual, cool, cooped, cordoned,
      cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detained, domestic,
      dwindling, ebbing, enclosed, eremitic, even-tenored, fenced,
      halcyon, hedged, hemmed, hermitic, hermitish, hushed, immured,
      impassive, impounded, imprisoned, in confinement, incarcerated,
      isolated, jailed, kept in, leaguered, mewed, moldering, monachal,
      monasterial, monastic, pacific, paled, peaceable, peaceful, penned,
      pent, pent-up, placid, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, railed,
      recluse, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained,
      restricted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered,
      shut in, shut up, shut-in, smooth, stay-at-home, still,
      still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding,
      tranquil, unagitated, under restraint, undisturbed, unmoved,
      unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, walled, walled-in,
      waning