Cloistered

a.	1.	Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. - Shenstone.
	2.	Furnished with cloisters.

Adj.	1.	cloistered - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Synonyms: cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical
	2.	cloistered - providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" Synonyms: sequestered, reclusive, secluded

anchoritic, at rest, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calm, claustral, closed-in, confined, conventical, conventual, cool, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, detained, domestic, dwindling, ebbing, enclosed, eremitic, even-tenored, fenced, halcyon, hedged, hemmed, hermitic, hermitish, hushed, immured, impassive, impounded, imprisoned, in confinement, incarcerated, isolated, jailed, kept in, leaguered, mewed, moldering, monachal, monasterial, monastic, pacific, paled, peaceable, peaceful, penned, pent, pent-up, placid, quarantined, quiescent, quiet, railed, recluse, reposeful, reposing, restful, resting, restrained, restricted, secluded, sequestered, sequestrated, sheltered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, smooth, stay-at-home, still, still as death, stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated, under restraint, undisturbed, unmoved, unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, walled, walled-in, waning

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