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cloisteral

cloisteral is the alternative form of cloistral.

Meaning of cloistral

Adjective

cloistral (comparative more cloistral, superlative most cloistral)

  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.
    • … it is in that Kind [of Words], as best accords
      With rural Passions, which use not to reach
      Beyond the Groves, and Woods, where they were bred
      And best become a Cloistral Exercise,
      Where Men shut out retir’d, and sequestred
      From publick Fashion, seem to sympathize
      With innocent and plain...1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152
    Synonyms:
    claustral
  2. Sheltered from the world; monastic.
    • Speak not! he is consecrated— / Breathe no breath across his eyes: / Lifted up and separated / On the hand of God he lies, / In a sweetness beyond touching,—held in cloistral sanctities.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Child Asleep”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 126
  3. Secluded.
    • [C]loistral avenues, / Where silence dwells if music be not there: […]1799–1805 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Book VI. Cambridge and the Alps.”, in The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind; an Autobiographical Poem, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1850...

Forms of cloisteral

comparativemore cloisteral
superlativemost cloisteral

Questions about cloisteral

What is cloisteral the alternative form of?
Cloisteral is the alternative form of cloistral.

Words near cloisteral in the dictionary

  1. cloisonnés
  2. cloisons
  3. cloister
  4. cloister vault
  5. cloister vaults
  6. cloisteral
  7. cloistered
  8. cloisterer
  9. cloisterers
  10. cloisteress
  11. cloisteresses

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