a. Also 7 cloysteral(l, cloystrall, 9 cloisteral. [f. CLOISTER + -AL, after L. claustrāl-is claustral.]

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  1.  Pertaining to a cloister; monastic.

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1605.  Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia (1717), 151. A Cloistral Exercise, Where Men shut out retir’d, and sequestred … seem to sympathize With innocent and plain Simplicity.

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1651.  Reliq. Wotton (1672), 39. Making a holy retreat to a Cloysteral life.

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1868.  M. Pattison, Academ. Org., 328. The pressure of practical life makes ‘culture for culture’s sake’ sound like cloistral and pedantic talk.

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  2.  Of persons: Dwelling in a cloister; belonging to a monastic order. Also absol.

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1624.  Donne, Serm. Rev. vii. 9. Salvation is a more extensive thing … then sullen cloystrall, that have walled salvation in a monastery … take it to be. Ibid. (a. 1631), Poems (1650), 189. So cloysterall men … Have Vertue in Melancholy.

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  3.  Of the type of a cloister.

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1844.  I. Williams, Baptistery, 249. Through cloistral glades.

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1883.  C. H. Farnham, in Harper’s Mag., 383/2. The house is rather cloistral, with its few small windows with double sashes curtained with wall-paper.

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