'Cloistering' definitions:

Definition of 'Cloistering'

From: GCIDE
  • Cloister \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. [1913 Webster]
  • None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]