To protect or isolate.
To confine in a cloister, voluntarily or not.
To become a Roman Catholic religious.
To deliberately withdraw from worldly things.
To provide with a cloister or cloisters.
such an arcade in a monastery;
A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
The monastic life.
such an arcade fitted with representations of the stages of Christ's Passion.
To isolate.
To separate, isolate or block by means of a curtain or other barrier.