cloistral

adjective

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Etymology: Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.

Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.
“1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152, … 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 Simplicity:”
“As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.”
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.”
“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.”
Secluded.
“[C]loistral avenues, / Where silence dwells if music be not there: […]”
“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!””