ppl. a. [f. CLOISTER v. and sb. + -ED.]

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  1.  Shut up or dwelling in a cloister; monastic.

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1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 350. No Covent of Cloystered company or cowled crew.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 296. Though I rate this cloister’d Lubber according to his deserts.

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1741.  Berkeley, Lett., 7 June, Wks. IV. 280. A modern cloystered friar!

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1861.  Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 157. The gratitude of cloistered chroniclers.

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  b.  transf. Of things, conditions, etc.

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1631.  Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 141. He put off the habite of his cloistered profession.

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1649.  G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. V., lviii. Cloystered Ease.

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1855.  H. Reed, Lect. Eng. Lit., xii. (1878), 408. The … cloistered seclusion of a college.

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  2.  fig. Confined as in a cloister, recluse.

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1605.  Shaks., Macb., III. ii. 41. Ere the Bat hath flowne His Cloyster’d flight.

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1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 45. A fugitive and cloister’d vertue.

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1879.  E. Arnold, Lt. Asia, 31. How shall this be, with his cloistered ways!

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  3.  Furnished with a cloister: see CLOISTER v. 4.

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