Definitions for cloistral

cloistral clois·tral

Spelling: [kloi-struh l]
IPA: /ˈklɔɪ strəl/

Cloistral is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 587 anagrams from letters in cloistral (acillorst).

Definitions for cloistral

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or living in a cloister.
  2. cloisterlike.

Origin of cloistral

First recorded in 1595-1605; cloist(e)r + -al1

Examples for cloistral

And from a thick maple on the edge of a clearing a hermit-thrush fluted slowly over and over his cloistral ecstasy.

So she loved the cloistral feeling autumn brought with it to Welsley.

We talked Cambridge and the phenomenon of war as if we had been back among the cloistral stillnesses beside the Cam.

The cloistral vice, which seems inevitable in the English public schools, is robbed 50 of any shadow of palliation.

Reuben followed him into the cloistral odors and shadows of the sitting-room.

The gates are seldom open now to the silent caravans, for the graves in the cloistral grass lie close.

The growth of monasticism from the hermit stage to the cloistral life has already been described.

But the rule was moral and academical, not cloistral or ascetic.

Their existence had a cloistral quality which appealed to something in him.

Alas, I am not now up in the cloistral peacefulness of Cambridge, so I can't follow up that speculation.

Word Value for cloistral
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