cloistered

verb

  1. 1

    To become a Roman Catholic religious.

  2. 2

    To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

  3. 3

    To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

  4. 4

    To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

    “The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.”
  5. 5

    To protect or isolate.

Synonyms

adjective

  1. 1

    Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

  2. 2

    Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence

  3. 3

    Naive, lacking in worldliness

  4. 4

    Furnished with cloisters.

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