encloister
English
Alternative forms
- incloister
Etymology
en- + cloister
Verb
encloister (third-person singular simple present encloisters, present participle encloistering, simple past and past participle encloistered)
- To shut up in a cloister.
Synonyms
- cloister
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for encloister in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- centrioles, electrinos, electrions, interclose, r-selection