(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.
Immure
Definition:
(v. t.) To wall around; to surround with walls.
(v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
(n.) A wall; an inclosure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Capillaries and cells were "immured" with fibrillary substance which was produced by the tumour cells themselves.
(2) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
(3) It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge (“a just desert”).
(4) The locally ill-defined tumor in the fatty tissue of the renal pelvis immured small arteries and veins as well as an interlobar artery, and caused damage to the vascular walls accompanied by the development of aneurysm, perforation and fistulation into the renal pelvis, by mechanisms open to various pathogenetic interpretations.
(5) For the cases when granulation does not lead to the formation of a membrane or when the membrane growth is too slow, the present author developed a method of immuring a foreign body - a silk thread - into the granulation layer for as long as 6 to 8 days.
(6) Nevertheless, progressing fibrosis has a considerable influence on cell shape as the surrounded cell complexes are quasi immured, and their supply and transport procedures impaired.
(7) Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.
(8) After the sprays become immured in dentine matrix, the stems are removed.
(9) The much-doubted goalkeeper Paul Robinson then organised a defensive wall before, in effect, leaving himself immured by standing unsighted directly behind it.
(10) (c) The recent integrative position in which instead of the systems' self-immured isolation or the nonspecifics' paralyzing equivalence of all therapies, a synthesis of specific approaches within a larger nonspecific theory or practical strategy is attempted.