cloistral


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clois·tral

(kloi′strəl) also claus·tral (klô′strəl)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or suggesting a cloister; secluded.
2. Living in a cloister.
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cloistral

(ˈklɔɪstrəl) or

claustral

adj
(Ecclesiastical Terms) of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
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clois•tral

(ˈklɔɪ strəl)

adj.
1. of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister.
2. resembling a cloister; cloisterlike.
[1595–1605]
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Adj. 1. [画像:cloistral - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows]cloistral - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
unworldly - not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations; "was unworldly and did not greatly miss worldly rewards"- Sheldon Cheney
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References in classic literature ?
The lane was a very cloistral one, with a ribbon of gravelly road, bordered on each side with a rich margin of turf and a scramble of blackberry bushes, green turf banks and dwarf oak-trees making a rich and plenteous shade.
Dr Nisar, a senior causality medical officer at the hospital, said that most people were in the habit of sipping Trup Chai (a salted tea) and eating cloistral laden food including Ghalmandi and Sheershepek prepared from pure local ghee, cheese and milk.
Irony is written all over the cloistral pages of the play.
Diderot scholars have been careful in pointing out that Diderot's The Nun must not be read as a general critique of religion or, more specifically, Christian religion, but rather as a specific critique of cloistral life.
their life to Benedictine-like silence in "cloistral
Most wretched one, Who chose his epitaph?- Himself alone Could thus have dared the grave to agitate And claim, among the dead, this awful crown; Nor doubt that He marked also for his own Close to these cloistral steps a burial-place, That every foot might fall with heavier tread, Trampling upon his vileness.
Places (topoi) will be identified and defined in relation to major myths of mankind: the earthly paradise ("heaven on earth"), hell ("valley of weeping"), maternal area, utopias, idyllic space ("medelenism"), secured space, cloistral space (prison), public/private space ("my inner forum" in Marin Preda), etc.

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