(v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
(v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
(v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The officially authorised Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement , and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, are organised in such a way as to cloister Chinese Christians from foreign influence.
(2) The chapel, where in the last series Sister Bernadette struggled to reconcile her vocation with her love for widowed GP Dr Turner, is being turned into a spectacular four-bedroom, four-bathroom flat, using the central nave and west cloister corridor lit by a glass atrium.
(3) Rhinovirus challenge model in volunteers cloistered in individual hotel rooms.
(4) Before challenge and on each of 6 days of cloister, all volunteers were interviewed for symptoms and completed a test battery consisting of evaluations of secretion production by weighed tissues, nasal patency by active posterior rhinomanometry, nasal clearance by the dyed saccharin technique, pulmonary function by spirometry, eustachian tube function by sonotubometry, and middle ear status by tympanometry.
(5) No correlation was detected between ganglioside expression in normal brain and immunogenicity, consistent with this being a cloistered site.
(6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(7) In the white-stuccoed nave of St Martin-In-The-Fields, cloistered from the late afternoon traffic of Trafalgar Square, a choir is performing one of the canticles of Evensong.
(8) During cloister, symptoms also were scored by interview, nasal secretions were quantified and nasal washings were performed for viral culture.
(9) Cloistered in a vast Minnesotan home studio among umpteen hours of unreleased music, he often seemed the quintessential obsessive-compulsive auteur.
(10) To those in political life who misrecognise their own cloistered professional ideology as “pragmatism”, a purely tactical politics seems like the smart thing to do.
(11) You can see tears behind the eyes of the most seemingly impervious characters, with their funny, faux-period banter filtered through McDonagh's caustic, love-hate relationship with the cloistered world that still was around, albeit changing fast, in his youth.
(12) Also, weight of expelled secretions was greater and mucociliary clearance rate less on some cloister days for the placebo-treated group.
(13) It is best to enter from the Via della Mercede, have a look at Bernini 's magnificent statues of angels to your left, and then slip through the doors on the far side into the peaceful, slightly decrepit cloisters.
(14) Even at his most extroverted moments, Yves had been shielded by his cabal of intimates; towards the end, his world was reduced to his studio on Avenue Marceau, the couple's holiday home in Marrakech and the cloistered apartment on Rue de Babylone to which fewer and fewer people were admitted.
(15) We studied three different populations: cloistered nuns, white collar and blue collar workers.
(16) But life beyond the cloisters proved more perilous.
(17) Today the blasts have stopped, mostly, but the city is cloistered in concrete.
(18) Driving down an avenue near the Botanic Gardens later, and the buildings suddenly disappeared, the jungle pressed in overhead, and in the School of Visual Arts, a stunning Italianate villa in the Parque Lage, I sat in a cloistered cafe next to a courtyard pool, beneath a towering cliff face, the drone of the traffic the only indicator that I was still in a conurbation, not lost in a forgotten city in the middle of the Amazon.
(19) While it does not specifically mention women or domestic violence, Article 26 bars a broad swath of “relatives” from acting as witnesses, which presents a problem in a country where women are often cloistered at home and the bulk of violence committed against them is either by or in front of family members.
(20) As Haffner puts it: “The challenge was to let it exist and not exist at the same time.” A screen of 495 wooden posts marches around the outside of the building, marking the number of survivors of the attack, and forming a cloistered walkway between the outer and inner facade where 69 structural columns symbolise the number who died here.
Hermitage
Definition:
(n.) The habitation of a hermit; a secluded residence.
(n.) A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drome.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was coincident with the area of occurrence of ko-kq and ko-no Oxford-Hermitage hybrids.
(2) A corrupt group of officials expropriated his fund, Hermitage Capital, and used it to make a fraudulent tax claim.
(3) Interior ministry officers arrested Magnitsky last November as a suspect in the case against Browder, the co-founder of Hermitage, once Russia's biggest investment fund.
(4) When you reach Inver, it's only a short walk back to the start point at the Hermitage carpark, just off the A9, after Dunkeld.
(5) Alekseyeva and others said Cameron must focus on the prison murder case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working on a case for Hermitage Capital, a London-based investment fund run by UK citizen William Browder.
(6) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(7) Hermitage, a solicitor, and Middleton, an agronomist with extensive experience in Africa , planned to make the 216 hectares (533 acres) of prime farmland their home and business.
(8) The Hermitage has been attempting to boost its standing in the modern art world, building upon a world-renowned collection of ancient and impressionist art housed in a complex including the tsars' winter palace.
(9) Two congressmen today introduced the Justice for Sergei Magnitsky bill, named after Hermitage Capital's 37-year-old lawyer, who died last year in a Russian jail without access to medical help when he was seriously ill. Magnitsky had been imprisoned two years ago by Russian officials following an alleged $230m (£143m) tax fraud involving Hermitage Capital.
(10) Magnitsky was arrested last November as a suspect in the case against Hermitage's co-founder William Browder.
(11) Within hours of learning of the unexpected decision to send the monumental statue of the river god Ilissos to the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaris, hit back.
(12) Investigating the charges in 2008, Browder's auditor and lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, discovered that police and tax officials had colluded to steal Hermitage's tax payments for their own enrichment.
(13) Vaughan Thomas Norwich • British Museum lends Elgin marbles to Hermitage; later, Putin forwards it to Athens: two fingers to London.
(14) "Niet, Niet, Niet," intoned curator Kasper König in a speech at the opening reception on Friday night , rehearsing the bureaucratic mantra that met many of the requests he, and the participating artists, made of the Hermitage museum, which is hosting the Manifesta.
(15) The investigation into the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky , who was involved in Hermitage Capital Management's long legal dispute with the Kremlin, should be carried out by independent experts, William Browder, head of the investment fund, said today.
(16) But even though Magnitsky was directly employed by William Browder , who runs a London-based investment fund, Hermitage Capital Management, the UK government has failed to act or even criticise the Russian authorities over the affair.
(17) Last week, prosecutors in St Petersburg opened an investigation into the Hermitage museum after complaints that an exhibit by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman showed signs of extremism .
(18) 1.57am BST Barry O'Farrell has just resigned over his evidence to Icac, in which he said he did not receive a gift of a 1959 bottle of Penfolds Grange Hermitage from the head of Australian Water Holdings, Nick Di Girolamo.
(19) I did not give evidence in that case and the court made a finding that Hermitage's account of what transpired in the Silverdale affair was unchallenged.
(20) Although the original allegations were lodged against Hermitage, during the investigation Magnitsky discovered what he believed to be a cover-up for Russian state officials to embezzle an estimated $230m from the Russian treasury.