cloistral

a. 修道院的, 遁世的, 修道院回廊似的

词形变化

more cloistral 比较级 most cloistral 最高级

别名

cloisteral cloysteral cloystral

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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:

    As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.

  2. 2.

    Sheltered from the world; monastic.

  3. 3.

    Secluded.

词汇关系

词源

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

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