The Only Use of
cloister
in
Macbeth
- There's comfort yet; they are assailable;
Then be thou jocund: ere the bat hath flown
His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons,
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums,
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done
A deed of dreadful note.†p. 95.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(cloister in the architectural sense) a covered walkway and the courtyard it surrounds with an open colonnade on one side of the walkway and the perimeter building walls on the other side -- especially as an area of quiet contemplation on religious grounds
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(2)
(cloister in the religious sense) residence that is a place of religious seclusion (such as a monastery); or the act of entering into such a residence
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(3)
(cloister as in: cloister ourselves away) seclude from the world (kept separate from the world)