cloister alt (kloisteral)

An obsolete form of cloistral. cloistered (klois'tėrd), a. [ The court below is formed into a square by a corridor, having over the cheife entrance a stately cupola, covered with stone; the rest is cloistered and arch'd on pill asters of rustiq worke. Evelyn, Diary, April 1, 1644. A lovely cloistered court he found, A fountain in the midst o'erthrown and dry. William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 326. 2. Shut up in a cloister; inhabiting a convent. -3. Solitary; retired from the world; secret; concealed. IMG:content-0626.jpg:[blocks in formation] I cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 18. cloisterert (klois'ter-er), n. [ cloister + -er1; but cf. OF. cloistrier (= Pr. claustrier ), cloistre , a cloister.] One belonging to a cloister. cloistere t (klois'tėr-es), n. Same as cloistre . cloister-garth (klois'ter-gärth), n. In arch., the court inclosed by a cloister. cloistral (klois'tral), a. [Formerly also clois teral , cloister + -al , after ML. claustral is : see claustral .] 1. Of or pertaining to a cloister; of the nature of a cloister; belonging to or dwelling in a cloister. Many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion prefer contemplation before action. I. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 39. That initiatory branch of Italian art which I will venture to name, from the profe ion of many of the best masters who practised it, the cloistral epoch. Milman , Latin Christianity, xiv. 10. The Armenian Convent, whose cloistral buildings rise from the gla y lagoon, upon the south of the city [Venice], near a mile away. Howells , Venetian Life, xiii. 2. Secluded; retired. ven hoof, the half of a cloven hoof; perhaps, through a form * cluft (see cleft1 ), from root of cleave, split: see cleave2, and cf. cloof. ] A divided hoof; a cloven hoof. The harrying thieves! not a cloot left of the hail hirsel! Scott, Monastery, iii. Cloot-and-cloot, hoof-and-hoof-that is, every hoof. Clootie (klö'ti), n. [Sc., also written Clutie, Oh Thou! whatever title suit thee, Auld Hornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie . Burns, Addre to the De'il.