Cloister is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLOISTER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to seclude
• seclude or shut up in a convent or monastery
• An inclosed place.
• A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
• the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
• A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
• To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
• surround with a cloister, as of a garden
• seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
• confine or seclude in or as if in a monastery
NOUN:
• a covered walk in a convent, monastery, college, or cathedral, typically with a colonnade open to a quadrangle on one side
• a convent or monastery.
• monastic life
• covered pillared arcade, usu in a monastery
• residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery)
• a courtyard with covered walks (as in religious institutions)

Words related to CLOISTER

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How to use CLOISTER in a sentence

• He built the church of San Marco, the church of San Lorenzo, the cloister of San Verdiano.
• It was within the walls of the cloister that the awakening began and the first impulse was given to learning and philosophy.
• Many hundreds of years ago there dwelt in a cloister a monk named Urban, who was remarkable for his earnest and fervent piety.
• A more strict silence was to be kept in the cloister, and no one was to refrain from joining in the praises of God whilst in the choir.
• In Christendom they would, six hundred years earlier, have been sent to some quiet cloister.
• Just within the cloister wall he had planted a little herb garden, and it was into this that the old woman had forced her way.
• The men soon learned that she could overpower them, and all they could do was to go back into the cloister for reinforcements.
• These two are men who till the cloister lands Of Engelberg, and live behind the forest.
• And this was the entrance to the cloister of the Abbey.
• It was not long before crippled and invalid soldiers arrived, begging to be allowed to repair the cloister, and to find a shelter also within its walls.
• Some correspondence took place before the west side of the cloister was finally decided on.
• And then, at last, he spake to me of our case, and bade me fear not, for that a band of his friends, all-armed, was keeping watch and ward in the cloister without.
• About us was quiet, vacant cloister, and we parted more warmly than we had done within.
• The cloister was decorated by the series of paintings commonly known as the Dance of Death, such as may still be seen in the Cathedral of Basel, and in other places.
• Steps, felt rather than heard, passed up into the cloister.
• But Hugh, my husband, to one who has known the calm and peace of the Cloister there will always be an inner sanctuary in which will sound the call to prayer and vigil.
• Then the two turned and followed the others into the cloister.
• It has a very fine stone cloister, accompanied by its cells.
• Her convent is suppressed, the great cloister has become a military gymnasium.
• Having entered the peaceful cloister, each pirate chose a nun and marched back to the ship with their spoils.
• Gabriel waited near the door, knowing that those coming from the cloister must enter by it.
• Gabriel felt pity for the moral dependency in which the poor young man lived, and he would often leave his niece, going out into the cloister to join them.
• Besides, if he rules in the upper cloister, I rule in my tower.
• This they owed to the master, for he was now the true ruler of the upper cloister.
• From the dance that ceases abruptly we go straight to school or rather cloister.
• The new buildings were not an artistic success, in spite of the elaborate Gothic cloister, with its stupendous gateway and the imposing scale of the whole pile.
• Elizabeth was sent to Vadstene cloister, where her will was not asked.
• If Abelard had entered the cloister in the hope of finding peace, he soon discovered his mistake.
• Under the galleries of the cloister I observed an obscure monument, a bas-relief of the fourteenth century, and tried, in vain, to guess the enigma.
• But females could not enter the precincts of the cloister.
• If she had loved him, she would have suffered too deeply in the struggle to have continued to resist, and the cloister would have seemed a paradise.

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