cloistral

== English == === Etymology === Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral. === Adjective === cloistral (comparative more cloistral, superlative most cloistral) Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister. Synonym: claustral 1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152,[2] [...] 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: 1766, Thomas Amory, The Life of John Buncle: Esq., London: J. Johnson and B. Davenport, Volume 2, Section 3, page 56:[3] 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. Secluded. ==== Alternative forms ==== cloisteral cloysteral, cloystral (obsolete) ==== Derived terms ==== uncloistral ==== Translations ==== === References === === Anagrams === Castrillo