cloistered

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: clois=tered

CIDE DICTIONARY

cloistered, a. 

•  Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.  Hudibras.  [1913 Webster]

  "In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell,
  Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell."  [1913 Webster]
•  Furnished with cloisters.  Sir H. Wotton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cloistered, adj.
1 secluded, sheltered.
2 monastic.

THESAURUS

cloistered

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

ROGET THESAURUS

cloistered

Temple

N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.