cloistral

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of, pertaining to, resembling or living in a cloister.
    — 1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152, … it is in that Kind [of Words], as best accords With rural Passions, which use not to reach Beyond the Groves, and Woods, where they were bred And best become a Cloistral Exercise, Where Men shut out retir’d, and sequestred From publick Fashion, seem to sympathize With innocent and plain Simplicity:
  2. Sheltered from the world; monastic.
    — Speak not! he is consecrated— / Breathe no breath across his eyes: / Lifted up and separated / On the hand of God he lies, / In a sweetness beyond touching,—held in cloistral sanctities.
  3. Secluded.
    — [C]loistral avenues, / Where silence dwells if music be not there: […]

词形变化

more cloistral comparative most cloistral superlative cloisteral alternative cloysteral alternative cloystral alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
uncloistral

词源

Ultimately from Latin claustrālis (“of the cloister”), probably via Middle French cloistral. Doublet of claustral.
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