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Definition of cloistered : 1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary.
2. Furnished with cloisters.
3. of Cloister

Synonyms:

withdrawn, monastic, privy, unworldly, conventual, secret, recluse, private, cloistral, monastical

evicted, eliminated, banished, secluded, misanthropic, ostracized, extradited, blackballed, closeted, insulated, isolated, solitary, excluded, blacklisted, xenophobic, removed, boycott, ousted, screened, separated, excommunicated, segregated, antisocial, expelled, cordoned, confined, disbarred, boycotted, hermitic, anonymous, lonely, sequestered, sheltered, reclusive, outcast, exiled, extirpated, expatriated, alienated, ejected, alone, deported, maverick, rejected, aloof, detached

Usage examples:

• " I am only- I only thought that I had adorned myself, decked myself out with idle finery, although I know how many poor people are starving in want and misery, and how much more pleasing in the sight of the Lord is the grey robe of the cloistered nun. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• The early century saw the nave chapels built, having been preceded by the Portail aux Libraires, a sort of cloistered north entrance, still so referred to, one of the most charming and quiet old- world retreats to be found to- day even within the hallowed precincts of a cathedral. - "The Cathedrals of Northern France", Francis Miltoun.
• In the 14th century, when Oxford could show such a roll of philosophers that " not all the other Nations and Universities of Europe between them could muster such a list," a growing proportion of these were not cloistered, but secular clergy. - "Chaucer and His England", G. G. Coulton.