† clostern.
Obsolete.
A cloister, monastic cell, or monastery.
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minstereOE
monklifeeOE
clausterc1000
abbotricOE
house?a1160
anchor-house?c1225
religion?c1225
abbeyc1300
nunneryc1300
house (also abbey) of religiona1325
nunryc1325
closterc1330
cloister1340
monasterya1425
monk-house?c1475
friars1479
convent1528
guild1546
prioressy1575
abbey-stead1620
minchery1710
reclusory1821
akhara1838
house of piety1838
kloster1844
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 80 A closter þei bigan.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 172 Better him wer..in clostre haf led his life.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 670/6 Hoc claustrum, clostyre.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 98 The swerde was willed to be borne downe in the closter.
Compounds
In combinations.
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c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 182 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 82 He loked not as he were closter-pent.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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