cloister in English

noun
1
a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a wall on one side and a colonnade open to a quadrangle on the other.
In Carthusian houses the individual cells occupied by members of the community open from the cloister walk.
synonyms:walkwaycovered walkarcadeloggiagallery
verb
1
seclude or shut up in or as if in a convent or monastery.
the monastery was where the Brothers would cloister themselves to meditate

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1. A photograph of the Pingnan Cloister Garden.

2. To furnish ( a building ) with a cloister.

3. He coiled around the moist cloister pillars.

4. The Ambulatory is the covered passage around a cloister

5. They went out into the still, shadowy cloister garden.

6. Claustrum is a texture expansion pack for The Cloister

7. These harantara cloister lengths have lateral bay window - like projections , with a lower rectangular component or window proper , projected from the wall of the cloister , and an arched dormer , the upper component , projected from the coping roof of the harantara cloister .

8. The cloister linked the most important elements of an abbey together.

9. You may still long for cloister, but learn this lesson first.

10. Claustration (n.) "act of shutting up in a cloister," 1863, as if from a noun of action formed in Latin from Latin claustrare, from claustrum (see cloister).

11. Cloisterer (plural Cloisterers) One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a

12. Cloistered definition is - being or living in or as if in a cloister

13. Cloisterer (plural Cloisterers) One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse

14. Claustral definition: of or related to a cloister Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

15. Cloisterer (plural Cloisterers) One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse

16. Definition of Claustration. : the act of confining in or as if in a cloister.

17. The ancient cloister was a structure of red brick picked out with white stone.

18. From the cool of this cloister the island-dotted sea shimmered in the sunlight.

19. To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude .

20. Alure definition, a passageway, as the walk along one side of a cloister

21. What does Claustration mean? Shutting up or enclosing, usually referring to a religious cloister

22. In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise.

23. There is a lovely pilgrimage church of the early seventeenth century and a handsome cloister.

24. A cloister that opens strategically , looking for the right amount of sun, light and views.

25. Often the entire monastery is Cloistered, and may even be surrounded by a cloister wall.

26. When I stepped out of the cloister I had no idea where my path would lead.

27. Noun. Claustration ( countable and uncountable, plural Claustrations ) Shutting up or enclosing, usually in a religious cloister

28. 19 St. Francis of Assisi originally founded the cloister which now encloses a garden and well.

29. The fire and the smoke blinded and choked the French soldiers, which retreated to the convent's cloister.

30. Its influence would be experienced throughout the whole monastic community, and beyond the cloister in the world.

31. Wooden Coffered ceiling in the upper level of the cloister of San Juan de los Reyes

32. For the abbé, who was abbé commendataire of Chaalis, Aubert rebuilt the cloister and the abbatial lodgings.

33. Claustration definition: the act of confining to a small space (usually a cloister ) Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

34. And the sickening clamour of street noises beyond the cloister wall, the sickening odour of those who made them.

35. Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Claustration (Noun) Shutting up or enclosing, usually referring to a religious cloister

36. The fluids that are found in both these bodies come from the same source, namely, the Claustrum, which means “barrier” or “cloister,” and is referred to as cloister for the very good reason that a precious and holy thing is secreted or secluded there.

37. A new cloister was built in 1475 under the abbot Pierre de Fontenette to harmonise with the other conventual buildings.

38. A Caravansary is a squared building in the shape of cloister containing rooms, stores and boutiques for merchants (Raymond, 1985)

39. Women were hungry for a new life away from the heat, from the cloister, hungry for education, hungry for travel.

40. In all divine offices in the abbey, in reading and in meditation, he associated with the brethren in the cloister.

41. …was a quadrangular court, or cloister, provided with Arcaded walks, or “alleys,” and placed beside the nave of the church

42. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always questionable.

43. In all divine offices in the abbey, in reading and in meditation,[Sentencedict.com ] he associated with the brethren in the cloister.

44. ‘Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of Crenellations (battlements).’

45. These cloister galleries are designated in the Tamil inscriptions and texts as malikai ( malika ) as also in the Silpa and Agama literature on temple architecture .

46. Claustral Meaning: "of or pertaining to a cloister, monastic," from Medieval Latin Claustralis "pertaining to a claustrum,"… See definitions of Claustral.

47. Antiques Ephrata Cloister was part of 1930s art campaign that encouraged post-Depression tourism [photos] Mar 23, 2021; Philadelphia’s Social Impact Studios recently hosted a …

48. Mary may have called the book her "hideous progeny, " calling to mind Frankenstein's monster, but unlike Victor Frankenstein, she did not cloister herself to construct it.

49. ‘Behind the gatehouse, around the monastic cloister, there were similar conversions, the whole façade being topped with a bombastic row of Crenellations (battlements).’

50. Cenobite Meaning: "member of a communal religious order," 1630s, from Church Latin coenobita "a cloister brother," from… See definitions of Cenobite.