a. [f. CLOISTER sb. + -LY1.] Proper to, or of the nature of, a cloister.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 244/1. Elizabeth … entered the profession of cloisterlie religion, and made hirselfe a nun.
1588. J. Harvey, Disc. Problem Prophesies, 73. Good plaine rude cloisterly stuffe.
1852. Dickens, Bleak Ho., xxvii. By the cloisterly Temple, and by Whitefriars.
