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Cloistral

adjective
(Written also cloisteral)
1.
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.  Synonyms: cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical.





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... of as a seat of learning as early as the 11th century. Cloistral schools existed before that. Schools of divinity, law, and topography were founded in the 12th century. In the 13th Dominican and Franciscan scholars raised it to a level only second to Paris, and by the end of the 14th century ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood


Words linked to "Cloistral" :   unworldly, cloistered, cloister


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