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1606, Samuel Daniel, The Queen’s Arcadia, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, London: R. Gosling, 1717, The Epistle, pp. 151-152, … it is in that Kind [of Words], as best accords With rural Passions, which use not to reach Beyond the Groves, and Woods, where they were bred And best become a Cloistral Exercise, Where Men shut out retir’d, and sequestred From publick Fashion, seem to sympathize With innocent and plain Simplicity:
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As to the marriage of the friars in this cloystral house, their founder, Ivon, in my opinion, was quite right in this notion.
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Coming straight from the convent, she had gone in behind the high walls of the manor-house that was almost more cloistral than any convent could have been.
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[T]he three men followed, rushing into the hall, pausing, bringing with them into its stale and cloistral dimness something of the savage summer sunlight which they had just left.
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Closest matches include cloistered, conventual, monastic, monastical.
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