cloister
IPA: kɫˈɔɪstɝ
noun
- A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
- such an arcade in a monastery;
- such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
- A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
- (figuratively) The monastic life.
verb
- (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
- (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
- (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
- (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
- (transitive) To protect or isolate.
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Examples of "cloister" in Sentences
- Her design style was said to be greatly influenced by the days in cloister:
- IV. iii.280 (107,1) [He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister] I know not that _cloister_, though it may etymologically signify _any_
- On the east side of the cloister was the north transept of the church which led to a sacristy, a room set aside for the officiating priest.
- Retired in a cloister from the vices and passions of the world, he presents not a confession, but an apology, of the life of an ambitious statesman.
- Thérèse of Lisieux who rarely talked to people outside of the cloister was the person of "the missionary spirit" and became the patron of the Mission.
- Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above.
- Nuova, the hospital of Florence; and then, being dead, he was buried in the Ossa (for so they call a cloister, or rather cemetery, of the hospital), like the rest of the poor, in the year 1340.
- When he thought of the great Mongibello that he never would see, and of Donna Elisa, who would never come again, and of the school, and of the shut-in cloister garden, and of a whole restricted life!
- Besides providing a means of communication between the various parts of the monastery, they were both the dwelling-place and the workshop of the monks, and thus the word cloister became a synonym for the monastic life.
- The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.
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