单词 | encloistered |
释义 | encloisteredadj. 1. Shut up in cloisters or monasteries. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [adjective] > enclosed encloistered1550 enclosed1884 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [adjective] > confined encloistered1550 cloistereda1616 enclosed1884 1550 T. Lever Serm. Thyrd Sondaye in Lente (new ed.) sig. C.viii Settynge abrode incloystred papistes. 1908 H. Belloc On Nothing 72 The smoke also of the train as it skirts the Downs is part and parcel of what has become (thanks to the trains) our encloistered country life. 2. Surrounded by or furnished with cloisters. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [adjective] > ambulatory > having portico or arcade alured1394 encloistered1625 porticoed1665 piazzaed1694 arcaded1805 arcadian1870 cloistered- 1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 59 Seueral quadrangles, euery one incloystred [1682 encloystered]. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 268 Having incloystered lodgings ioyned to the walls thereof. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. 444 The eleven incloystered petty Courts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1550 |
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