Dictionary Entry

cloistered

To become a Roman Catholic religious.

Origin

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Common Phrases

life cloisteredvirtue cloisterednuns cloisteredemperor cloisterednun cloistered. cloistered

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Poetry examples for “cloistered”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And a near watchful guard, that never slept.
This cloistered, in the hostile harbour lay,
Maintained by castles and a treacherous way.

Hold on, hope hard in the subtle thing
That's spirit: tho' cloistered fast, soar free;
Account as wood, brick, stone, this ring

A lonely Man he was, from whom these lays
Flow'd in his cloistered musings : He in scorn
Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born

It freshly blew, and strong,
Where, from high Whitby’s cloistered pile,
Bound to St. Cuthbert’s holy isle,