cloisteredadj.
/ˈklɔɪstəd/ 1.
a. Shut up or dwelling in a cloister; monastic.
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1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 350 No Covent of Cloystered company or cowled crew.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 35 Though I rate this cloister'd Lubber according to his deserts.
1741 G. Berkeley Let. 7 June in Wks. (1871) IV. 280 A modern cloystered friar!
1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 157 The gratitude of cloistered chroniclers.
b. transferred. Of things, conditions, etc.
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1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 141 He put off the habite of his cloistered profession.
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V lviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 115 Cloystered Ease.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1878) xii.408 The..cloistered seclusion of a college.
2. figurative. Confined as in a cloister, recluse.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 42 Ere the Bat hath flowne His Cloyster'd flight. View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 12 A fugitive and cloister'd vertue.
1879 E. Arnold Light of Asia 31 How shall this be, with his cloistered ways!
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3. Furnished with a cloister: see cloister v. 4.
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