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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Cloister
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(1):
(v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
(2):
(v. t.) An inclosed place.
(3):
(v. t.) the series of such passages on the different sides of any court, esp. that of a monastery or a college.
(4):
(v. t.) A covered passage or ambulatory on one side of a court;
(5):
(v. t.) A monastic establishment; a place for retirement from the world for religious duties.