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
   • As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle: Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 3, page 56

   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
   • He must not dilute his own soul’s essence. He must not surrender to any passion his dandihood. The dandy must be celibate, cloistral; is, indeed, but a monk with a mirror for beads and breviary—an anchorite, mortifying his soul that his body may be perfect.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson
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...
   • Then, responsive to the bird’s insistence, / From the margin of some cloistral shore / Came a murmur up the hollow distance, / “On the morrow will I ope the door!”1904, Clinton Scollard, “The Summoner”, in The Lyric Bough, New York, N.Y.: James Pott, page 26