v. [UN-2 5.] trans. To turn out of, remove from, a cloister; to set free, liberate.

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1611.  Florio, Dischiostrare, to vncloister.

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1687.  Norris, Paraphr. 3rd Chap. Job, vi. Why did I not uncloister’d from the Womb Take my next lodging in a Tomb?

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1795.  trans. Mercier’s Fragm. Pol. & Hist., II. 424. These … burnt the archives, and uncloistered the monks and nuns.

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1856.  N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 276. The monks and friars were uncloistered.

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  Hence Uncloistered ppl. a.1

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1627.  P. Fletcher, Locusts, IV. x. Can that uncloist’red Frier with those light armes … Wake all the sleeping world?

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1853.  Cdl. Wiseman, Ess., iii. 97. He was brother to the patron and was … an uncloistered friar.

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