(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.
Monastic
Definition:
(n.) A monk.
(a.) Alt. of Monastical
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, chromosomes do not even assemble kinetochore microtubules in the absence of a spindle pole, and kinetochore microtubules form only on kinetochores facing the pole when a monaster is present.
(2) The tiny room, furnished with a battered old desk and greasy-looking mattress, resembles a monastic cell.
(3) What others say “The most gifted woman now writing in English.” Philip Roth What she says “Writing is a monastic activity.
(4) But his proudest moment came in October, 1980 when he led the bishops in Rome for the Synod to Subiaco, where St Benedict began his monastic life.
(5) A sample population was selected randomly from a rural monastic settlement in southern India.
(6) Later, the centrosome becomes more distinct and organizes a radial microtubule shell, and eventually a compact centrosome at the egg center organizes a monaster.
(7) These observations demonstrate that chromosomes in a mitotic cytoplasm cannot organize a bipolar spindle in the absence of a spindle pole or even in the presence of a monaster.
(8) The degree of development attainable after three hours was dependent on the pH, with spirals forming at the threshold level of pH 7.0, monasters at pH 7.5, and at pH 8.5 cells formed cytasters, multipolar spindles and even completed multipolar divisions.
(9) "The reason Époisses and stuff like that exists is because of monastic traditions where the cheese was handled by people who weren't very sanitary," he says.
(10) By choosing Benedict, the previous pope signalled continuity with Benedict XV, who steered the Vatican through the first world war, and also with the original Saint Benedict who founded the Benedictine monastic order and is considered a pioneer of European education.
(11) For generations of children, the Vikings have been both wild savages (thanks to Anglo Saxon monastic chroniclers, and Horrible Histories) and emblematic of mythical forces, thanks to Tolkien and Pullman.
(12) By contrast, with taxol the number of non-kinetochore microtubules increased and the astral ejection force became stronger as shown by the finding that the chromosomes moved away from the pole to the periphery of the monaster.
(13) In some eggs a centrally localized monaster with chromosomes in sphere-like arrangement was formed in others a monopolar mitotic figure pushed the chromosomes in bowl-like arrangements to the most vegetal cortex.
(14) His monastic silence about the case means that, unusually for a retired politician, he took his secrets to the grave, and we might never know what he really made of the woman with whom he will be forever associated.
(15) He relished the privacy he was afforded here in an almost monastic way, but he was also a great party giver and host.
(16) The whole of higher education is stuck in a monastic time-warp.
(17) Moreover, arms severed from chromosomes at the periphery of the taxol monaster failed to move further away from the aster's center.
(18) Her habit is a long, paint-splattered shift; her monastic cell is her studio, where there are bare floorboards and almost no furniture.
(19) These monasters were subsequently observed to develop into bipolar M1 spindles and proceed through meiosis.
(20) Newsdesks across Britain raced to dispatch reporters to the City to watch the drama as, umm, traders stared nervously at electronic screens in monastic quiet: Rupert Neate at IG Photograph: Guardian The day turned into a rout, with over £43bn wiped off the FTSE 100.