The gist of the matter was that the children constituted a hindrance to claustral discipline and devotion.
She cannot restrain students from Oxford from having common access in her despite to the monastery and the claustral precincts.
He is the patriarch of Monte Cassino; he is the second founder of the claustral Holiness, the Basil of the West.
The fervid heart of the royal nun was apparently beating placidly, in the quiet claustral surroundings.
Its claustral arrangements were peculiar to itself, but its church-plan had some effect upon the churches of other orders, particularly upon those of Premonstratensian canons.
Of the extra-claustral buildings of a monastery, the most important was the infirmary (domus infirmaria, infirmitorium).
Arrangements had to be made for processions, and especially for the procession before high mass on Sundays, which began and ended in the church and made the round of the claustral buildings.
Now have I understood thee, quoth Panurge, my plushcod friar, my caballine and claustral ballock.
I know thy meaning, answered Friar John; this metaphor is extracted out of the claustral kettle.
Each day is a festival unto them, who diligently heed the claustral proverb, De missa ad mensam.
The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Next to theology--in which class the chief books were the same as in the claustral library, although liturgical books are more rarely found--the largest section of an academic collection was that of civil and canon law.
The period of the greatest literary activity in the monasteries now began, and large claustral libraries were soon formed.
The plan just given shows the position of this room between the church and the chapter-house, and not far from the common claustral aumbry.
John Stow, whose gatherings form part of the Harleian collection, saved some books which once reposed in claustral aumbries, mainly owing to the protection and help of Archbishop Parker.
The procedure was the same as at the annual claustral distribution.
Defn: The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
Claustral prior, an official next in rank to the abbot in a monastery; prior of the cloisters.
Anon theclaustral apathy might encompass her; in time and by slow degrees she might become absorbed into the grey spirit of the place.
For my mother's claustral needs sufficient was provided by the alcove in which she slept, the private chapel of the citadel in which she would spend long hours, and this private dining-room where we now sat.
By what right did you seek to consecrate a child unborn to a claustral life without thought of his character, without reck of the desires that should be his?
Perhaps I have, in so far as that it is less petted, more humble, less feminine, and more claustral than the Gothic.
All permissions given and arrangements made by the sub-prior, during the absence of either the abbot or prior, were to be reported to them on their return to claustral duties.
As an ordinary part of his office the almoner had also a good deal to do with any monastic school, other than the claustral school for young religious, which was connected with a monastery.
The Canterbury Claustral School in the Fifteenth Century.
It is probable that Selling, after having passed through theclaustral school at Canterbury, on entering the Benedictine Order was sent to finish his studies at Canterbury College, Oxford.
All this red looked very sombre under the expansive dome, and in the claustral dimness the gold on the royal armchair shone forth like a holy shrine.
Perhaps the perfume had been worn by the lady who was so pallid, so severe, with the imposing claustral mien of a high-born Abbess, in her black gown and white collar.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "claustral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cloistered; enclosing; limiting; monastic; surrounding
