cloistraladj.
/ˈklɔɪstrəl/ 1. Pertaining to a cloister; monastic.
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monklyOE
monastical1402
monasterialc1443
claustralc1449
cloistrosec1449
monkish1536
monastic1563
abbey-like1570
cloisterly1570
cloistered1581
cloistral1606
monachal1607
monasterical1651
monial1656
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia Ded. sig. A2 A claustrall exercise, Where men shut out, retyr'd, and sequestred..seeme to sympathize With innocent, and plaine simplicitie.
1651 I. Walton Life of Wotton in H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1672) sig. d2 Making a holy retreat to a Cloysteral life.
1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 328 The pressure of practical life makes ‘culture for culture's sake’ sound like cloistral and pedantic talk.
2. Of persons: Dwelling in a cloister; belonging to a monastic order. Also absol.
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incluse?1440
cloistered1581
cloistrala1631
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 151 Salvation is a more extensive thing..then sullen cloystrall, that have walled salvation in a monastery..take it to be.
a1631 J. Donne Poems (1650) 189 So cloysterall men..Have Vertue in Melancholy.
3. Of the type of a cloister.
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abbatial1445
claustralc1449
abbatical1655
cloistral1844
cloisterly1853
1844 I. Williams Baptistery II. iv. 99 Through cloistral glades.
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 383/2 The house is rather cloistral.
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