a. [ad. late L. claustrālis, f. claustrum CLOISTER: see also -AL 1.]
1. Of, pertaining or belonging to a cloister or religious house.
c. 1430. trans. Kempis’ Imit., I. xxv. (E.E.T.S.). Religiose men þat are streited under claustral discipline.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., 537. Claustral monkis.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. (1550), 61 b. Dunstane … compelled men and women … to kepe claustrale obedyence.
1726. Ayliffe, Parerg., 6. A conventual Priory, is a Dignity in the Church, but a Claustral Priory is not.
1862. Hook, Lives Abps., II. vi. 322. The commencement of his claustral life.
† 2. Pertaining to a cloister, colonnade or piazza.
1560. Rolland, Crt. Venus, II. 509. Cumana … set in hir sait claustrall.
3. Cloister-like, savoring of the cloister.
1862. Temple Bar Mag., IV. 402. Isolation and claustral seclusion.
1877. L. Morris, Epic. Hades, I. 11. The sacred claustral doors of home.
1886. Farrar, Hist. Interpret., 285. The claustral narrowness of mediæval exegesis.
