different between cloister vs uncloister

English

Alternative forms

• cloistre (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since about 1300 as Middle English cloistre, borrowed from Old French cloistre, clostre, or via Old English clauster, both from Medieval Latin claustrum (“portion of monastery closed off to laity”), from Latin claustrum (“place shut in, bar, bolt, enclosure”), a derivation of the past participle of claudere (“to close”). Doublet of claustrum.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• (US) enPR: kloi?st?r, IPA^(key): /?kl??st?/
• Rhymes: -??st?(?)

Noun

cloister (plural cloisters)

1. A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:
   1. such an arcade in a monastery;
   2. such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
2. A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
3. (figuratively) The monastic life.

Derived terms

• cloisterer
• cloisterless
• cloisterlike
• cloister vault
• cloistral
• cloistress
• encloister

Related terms

• claustrum
• claustral
• claustrophobia

Translations

Verb

cloister (third-person singular simple present cloisters, present participle cloistering, simple past and past participle cloistered)

1. (intransitive) To become a Roman Catholic religious.
2. (transitive) To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
3. (intransitive) To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
4. (transitive) To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

   The architect cloistered the college just like the monastery which founded it.

5. (transitive) To protect or isolate.

Synonyms

• (become a Catholic religious) enter religion

Derived terms

• cloistered
• uncloister

Related terms

• claustration

Translations

See also

• abbey
• hermitage
• monastery
• nunnery

Anagrams

• citolers, cloistre, coistrel, cortiles, costlier, creolist, sterolic

Middle English

Noun

cloister

1. Alternative form of cloistre

English

Etymology

un- +? cloister

Verb

uncloister (third-person singular simple present uncloisters, present participle uncloistering, simple past and past participle uncloistered)

1. To release from a cloister, or from confinement or seclusion; to liberate.

Anagrams

• interlocus, reticulons