Word Meanings - INCLOISTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To confine as in a cloister; to cloister. Lovelace.

CLOISTER
claustra, bar, bolt, bounds, fr. claudere, clausum, to close. See 1. An inclosed place. Chaucer. 2. A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court; the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that
CLOISTERED
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.
CONFINELESS
Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
CLOISTERER
One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.
CONFINEMENT
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by
CLOISTERAL
Cloistral. I. Walton.
CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
CONFINE
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of
ENCLOISTER
To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
UNCLOISTER
To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate.
INCLOISTER
To confine as in a cloister; to cloister. Lovelace.