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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective cloistered has 2 senses
- cloistered(s = adj.all) cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows; Array
- cloistered(s = adj.all) reclusive, secluded, sequestered - providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
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cloistered, a.
- Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. Hudibras. [1913 Webster]"In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell,
Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell." [1913 Webster] - Furnished with cloisters. Sir H. Wotton. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
cloistered
anchoritic, at rest, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calm, claustral, closed-in, confined, conventical, conventual, cool, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detained, domestic, dwindling, ebbing, enclosed, eremitic, even-tenored, fenced, halcyon, hedged, hemmed, hermitic, hermitish, hushed, immured, impassive, impounded, imprisoned, in confinement, incarcerated, isolated, jailed, kept in, leaguered, mewed, moldering, monachal, monasterial, monastic, pacific, paled, peaceable, peaceful, penned, pent, pent-up, placid, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, railed, recluse, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained, restricted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, smooth, stay-at-home, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under restraint, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, walled, walled-in, waningROGET THESAURUS
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Temple
N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.
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