cloistered

English

Adjective

cloistered (comparative more cloistered, superlative most cloistered)

1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.

   • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules:

     In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.

2. Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
   • 2023 July 9, Alexandra Jacobs, “Grazed and Confused: In ‘The Vegan,’ a Guilty Hedge Funder Eats His Feelings”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     […] “The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.

3. Naive, lacking in worldliness.
4. Furnished with cloisters.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:

     both the Greeks and Romans […] had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men

Translations

isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence

• German: klösterlich (de), abgeschieden (de), weltabgeschieden

furnished with cloisters

Verb

cloistered

1. simple past and past participle of cloister