Cloisteral

It is such solitude that speaks in the first "Impression of Notre-Dame" with its gray mounting masses, its cloisteral reverberation of bells, its savage calls of the city to one standing alone with the monument of a dead age. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

Some of his views "might seem like broken visions of the future, when we think of the first disciples who had all things in common, and, in later days, of the celibate clergy, and the cloisteral life of the religious orders." ❋ Alfred Wesley Wishart (1899)

And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion prefer contemplation before action. ❋ Various (1885)

The style of his discourse was adapted to cloisteral disputations, and overloaded with scholastic distinctions. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Yet, notwithstanding this robust health and the strength of the convent walls, the time was drawing near when St. Sebastian's lease in Kate must, in legal phrase, 'determine;' and any _chateaux en Espagne_, that the Saint might have built on the cloisteral fidelity of his pet ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Indeed, all the great foundation schools of London, bearing in their very codes of organization the impress of a double function -- viz., the conservation of sound learning and of pure religion -- wear something of a monastic or cloisteral character in their aspect and usages, which is peculiarly impressive, and even pathetic, amidst the uproars of a capital the most colossal and tumultuous upon earth. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion, prefer contemplation before action. ❋ Walton, Izaak, 1593-1683 (1760)

Come, fair cousins, we hope to make the cloisteral life so pleasing, that it may be an inducement to you to quit the wicked world for ever. ❋ John Dryden (1665)

a cloisteral quiescence as of the slumber of centuries. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)