cloistered

cloistered (comparative more cloistered, superlative most cloistered)

1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, OCLC 963614346:

     Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.

   • 1741, William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules

     In cloister'd state let selfish sages dwell, / Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell.

2. Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
3. Naive, lacking in worldliness.
4. Furnished with cloisters.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, OCLC 17479433:

     both the Greeks and Romans […] had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men

cloistered

1. simple past tense and past participle of cloister