Definition of cloister

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Cloister (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.

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Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (n.) A place to walk in, whether in the open air, as the gallery of a cloister, or within a building..
Cloistered :: Cloistered (a.) Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.
Cloistered :: Cloistered (a.) Furnished with cloisters.
Cloisteral :: Cloisteral (a.) Cloistral.
Incloister :: Incloister (v. t.) To confine as in a cloister; to cloister.
Encloister :: Encloister (v. t.) To shut up in a cloister; to cloister.
Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure..
Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court.
Cloister :: Cloister (v. t.) An inclosed place.
Nunnery :: Nunnery (n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent..
Grate :: Grate (n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters..
Gradatory :: Gradatory (n.) A series of steps from a cloister into a church.
Uncloister :: Uncloister (v. t.) To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to set free; to liberate..
Cloisterer :: Cloisterer (n.) One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse..
Cloistered :: Cloistered (imp. & p. p.) of Cloiste.
Paradise :: Paradise (n.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc..
Cloistral :: Cloistral (a.) Of, pertaining to, or confined in, a cloister; recluse..
Garth :: Garth (n.) A close; a yard; a croft; a garden; as, a cloister garth..
Cloistering :: Cloistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cloiste.
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