CLOISTERED

cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered

(adjective) 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”

cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical

(adjective) of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Adjective

cloistered (comparative more cloistered, superlative most cloistered)

Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence

naive, lacking in worldliness

Furnished with cloisters.

Verb

cloistered

simple past tense and past participle of cloister

Source: Wiktionary

Clois"tered, a.

1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

2. Furnished with cloisters. Sir H. Wotton.

CLOISTER

Clois"ter, n. Etym: [OF. cloistre, F. cloître, L. claustrum, pl. claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere, clausum, to close. See Close, v. t., and cf. Claustral.]

1. An inclosed place. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; (pl.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale. Milton.

3. A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties. Fitter for a cloister than a crown. Daniel. Cloister garth (Arch.), the garden or open part of a court inclosed by the cloisters.

Syn.

– Cloister, Monastery, Nunnery, Convent, Abbey, Priory. Cloister and convent are generic terms, and denote a place of seclusion from the world for persons who devote their lives to religious purposes. They differ is that the distinctive idea of cloister is that of seclusion from the world, that of convent, community of living. Both terms denote houses for recluses of either sex. A cloister or convent for monks is called a monastery; for nuns, a nunnery. An abbey is a convent or monastic institution governed by an abbot or an abbess; a priory is one governed by a prior or a prioress, and is usually affiliated to an abbey.

Clois"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloistering.]

Definition: To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. None among them are throught worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. Sharp.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition