v. Also 7 encloystre, -ter, incloyster, incloister. [f. EN-1 + CLOISTER: cf. F. encloîtrer, and OF. encloistre sb., cloister.]
1. trans. To shut up in a cloister or monastery.
1622. Drayton, Poly-olb., xxiv. 98. Those Mayds and widdowed Queenes, doe worthily belong, Incloystred that became.
a. 1670. Hacket, Cent. Serm. (1675), 221. And now every youngling at the age of fourteen is solemnly received to be incloystered in an unmaried estate for ever.
2. transf. and fig. To shut in; to immure or imprison; to confine.
1596. R. L[inche], Diella, Sonn. xxix. When day incloistred is in dustie pryson of infernall Night.
1627. Drayton, Agincourt, 208. Poems … In priuate chambers, that incloistered are.
a. 1638. Mede, Ch. for Chr. Worship, Wks. II. 336. This notion of encloistering a Deity by an Idol.
1654. Sir R. Baker, trans. Balzac’s Lett. to Card. Richelieu. God hath not conferred such extraordinary endowments upon you, to be for ever encloistered within your self.
1670. Penn, Truth Rescued fr. Impost., 49. They were not there encloyster’d for not agreeing in their Verdict.
1710. Brit. Apollo, III. No. 91. 2/1. Such Damps could be so strictly Encloistered and Pent in.
3. To furnish with cloisters, See ENCLOISTERED 2.
