Word Finder - cloister

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A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle; especially:

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A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.

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The monastic life.

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To become a Roman Catholic religious.

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To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.

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To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.

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To provide with a cloister or cloisters.

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

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To protect or isolate.

The cloister and monastic buildings lie to the south side of the church.

He was defeated, blinded and sent back to die in the cloister of Sahagun.

On the western side of the cloister is another two-story building (N).

The final judgment found no proof of heresy, but compelled him to abjure sixteen errors, rather extorted than extracted from his writings, suspended him from his see for five years, and secluded him to the Dominican cloister of Sta Maria sopra Minerva.

The other half he spent in "Bogucharovo Cloister," as his father called Prince Andrew's estate.

All were linked by a continuous alley around a cloister garth.

William, count of Provence, son of Boso II., again delivered southern France from a Saracen invasion by his victory at Fraxinet in 973, and ended his life in a cloister.

It was not, however, until the 5th of June that the case of Huss came up for hearing; the meeting, which was an exceptionally full one, took place in the refectory of the Franciscan cloister.

The Merveille (1203-1264) consists of two continuous buildings of three storeys, that on the east containing, one above the other, the hospitium (aumonerie), refectory and dormitory, that on the west the cellar, knights' hall (salle des chevaliers) and cloister.

The chapter-house opens out of the same alley of the cloister.

The chapter-house (C) always opened out of the east walk of the cloister in a line with the south transept.

In the plan before us this apartment (E) opens from the south cloister walk, adjoining the refectory.

The dormitory, as a rule, was placed on the east side of the cloister, running over the calefactory and chapter-house, and joined the south transept, where a flight of steps admitted the brethren into the church for nocturnal services.

Outside the refectory door, in the cloister, was the lavatory, where the monks washed their hands at dinner-time.

Returning to the cloister, a vaulted passage admitted to the small cloister (I), opening from the north side of which were eight small cells, assigned to the scribes employed in copying works for the library, which was placed in the upper story, accessible by a turret staircase.

To the south of the small cloister a long hall will be noticed.

From this cloister opened the infirmary (K), with its hall, chapel, cells, blood-letting house and other dependencies.

At the eastern verge of the vast group of buildings we find the novices' lodgings (L), with a third cloister near the novices' quarters and the original guest-house (M).

Closely adjoining to this, so that the eye of the father of the whole establishment should be constantly over those who stood the most in need of his watchful care, - those who were training for the monastic life, and those who had worn themselves out in its duties, - was a fourth cloister (0), with annexed buildings, devoted to the aged and infirm members of the establishment.

Advancing into the inner court, the buildings devoted to hospitality are found close to the entrance; while those connected with the supply of the material wants of the brethren, - the kitchen, cellars, &c., - form a court of themselves outside the cloister and quite detached from the church.

The church refectory, dormitory and other buildings belonging to the professional life of the brethren surround the great cloister.

The small cloister beyond, with its scribes' cells, library, hall for disputations, &c., is the centre of the literary life of the community.

The requirements of sickness and old age are carefully provided for in the infirmary cloister and that for the aged and infirm members of the establishment.

This inner gate conducted into the base court (T), round which were placed the barns, stables, cow-sheds, &c. On the eastern side stood the dormitory of the lay brothers, fratres conversi (G), detached from the cloister, with cellars and storehouses below.

The long gabled building on the east side of the cloister contained on the ground floor the chapter-house and calefactory, with the monks' dormitory above (M), communicating with the south transept of the church.

The small cloister is at W, where were the carols or cells of the scribes, with the library (P) over, reached by a turret staircase.

The cloister to the south (4) occupies the whole length of the nave.

On the south side of the cloister we have the remains of the old refectory (II), running, as in Benedictine houses, from east to west, and the new refectory (12), which, with the increase of the inmates of the house, superseded it, stretching, as is usual in Cistercian houses, from north to south.

The western side of the cloister is, as usual, occupied by vaulted cellars, supporting on the upper story the dormitory of the lay brothers (8).

The abbot's house, the largest and most remarkable example of this class of buildings in the kingdom, stands south to the east of the church and cloister, from which it is divided by the kitchen court (K), surrounded by the ordinary domestic offices.

These houses, with gardens attached, also surround three sides of the cloister court, which lies north of the outer court.

The number of dormitories varies according to the size of the hall, and in the larger ones pillars support the roof on all three sides, forming a sort of cloister running round the hall.

This court was surrounded by wooden columns supporting a roof, like a medieval cloister; on the south side are chambers for attendants (BaXaµoc).

The town contains three old churches, of which the early Gothic abbey church with its Romanesque cloister is most notable, and some good houses.

The cloister is duly placed on the south side of the church, and the chief buildings occupy their usual positions round it.

Each occupied a small detached cottage, standing by itself in a small garden surrounded by high walls and connected by a common corridor or cloister.

The enclosure is divided into two courts, of which the eastern court, surrounded by a cloister, from which the cottages of the monks (I) open, is much the larger.

The two courts are divided by the main buildings of the monastery, including the church, the sanctuary (A), divided from B, the monks' choir, by a screen with two altars, the smaller cloister to the south (S) surrounded by the chapter-house (E), the refectory (X) - these buildings occupying their normal position - and the chapel of Pontgibaud (K).

The kitchen with its offices (V) lies behind the refectory, accessible from the outer court without entering the cloister.

The smaller of the two, the south, presents the usual arrangement of church, refectory, &c., opening out of a cloister.

At the Jacobins at Paris, a cloister lay to the north of the long narrow church of two parallel aisles, while the refectory - a room of immense length, quite detached from the cloister - stretched across the area before the west front of the church.

The refectory stretches northwards at right angles to the cloister, which lies to the north of the church, having the chapter-house and sacristy on the east.

Some fragments of the south walk of the cloister of the Grey Friars remained among the buildings of Christ's Hospital (the Blue-Coat School), while they were still standing.

The plan given by Viollet-le-Duc of the Priory of St Jean des Bons Hommes, a Cluniac cell, situated between the town of Avallon and the village of Savigny, shows that these diminutive establishments comprised every essential feature of a monastery, - chapel, cloister, chapter-room, refectory, dormitory, all grouped according to the recognized arrangement.

But the members of these orders were not less monks than knights, their statutes embodied the rules of the cloister, and they were bound by the ecclesiastical vows of celibacy, poverty and obedience.

The Merovingian race thus came to an end in the cloister.

About 1588, he determined to fulfil a vow which he had once made to enter a cloister; but being rejected by the Carthusians and the Celestines, he held himself absolved, and continued to follow his old profession.

In the later Armenian tradition we find other notices of this celebrated man' - such as, that he was the nephew of Mesrob, that he was publicly complimented by the emperor Marcian, that he had been ordained bishop of Bagrewand by the patriarch Giut, and that he was buried in the church of the Apostolic Cloister at Mush in the district of Taron; but these accounts must be received with great caution.

The Franciscan cloister is a fine specimen of late Romanesque; that of the Dominicans is hardly inferior, though of later date.

To the left of the church is an exquisite cloister of 1308 with double columns, in which a number of inscriptions relating to the Doria family and also the statue of Andrea Doria by Montorsoli are preserved.