Dictionary entry

Cloister (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Clois″ter (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Cloistered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Cloistering.] To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.

None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery.

Sharp.