Definition of Cloister. Meaning of Cloister. Synonyms of Cloister

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Definition of Cloister

Cloister
Cloister Clois"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloistering.] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure. None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. --Sharp.

Meaning of Cloister from wikipedia

- A cloister (from Latin claustrum, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle...
- garth. Cloister or cloisters may also refer to: A monastery or monastic life, especially cloistered or enclosed religious orders The Cloisters (disambiguation)...
- The Cloisters, also known as the Met Cloisters, is a museum in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City. The museum, situated...
- Look up cloisters in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Cloisters is the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan dedicated to the art...
- The cloister is ****tail made from gin, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, and chartreuse. The ****tail includes chartreuse, and has been cited as a good introduction...
- Cloister is a serif typeface that was designed by Morris Fuller Benton and published by American Type Founders from around 1913. It is loosely based on...
- In architecture, a cloister vault (also called a pavilion vault) is a vault with four concave surfaces (patches of cylinders) meeting at a point above...
- The Cloister and the Hearth (1861) is an historical novel by the British author Charles Reade. Set in the 15th century, it relates the travels of a young...
- Cloistered rule (院政, insei, lit. "monastery administration") was a form of government in ****an during the Heian period. In this bifurcated system, an emperor...
- text related to this article: Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" is a soliloquy written by Robert Browning, first published...