Definition of "cloisteral" [clois•ter•al]

• Alternative form of cloistral. (adjective)

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• "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."
• "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.""
• "And upon this ground, many cloisteral men of great learning and devotion prefer contemplation before action."