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Cloyster vs Clyster - What's the difference?

cloyster | clyster |

As nouns the difference between cloyster and clyster

is that cloyster is while clyster is a medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository.

cloyster

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1823, author=Giles Gossip, title=Coronation Anecdotes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At the banquet the king took his station, incog. in a little closet made out of the cloyster of St. Stephen's, on the right side of the hall. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1715, author=William Lilly, title=William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Davy Ramsey, his Majesty's clock-maker, had been informed, that there was a great quantity of treasure buried in the cloyster of Westminster-Abbey; he acquaints Dean Williams therewith, who was also then Bishop of Lincoln; the Dean gave him liberty to search after it, with this proviso, that if any was discovered, his church should have a share of it. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1661, author=Samuel Pepys, title=Diary of Samuel Pepys, September/October 1661, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=After dinner (there coming this morning my aunt Hanes and her son from London, that is to live with my father) I rode to Huntingdon, where I met Mr. Philips, and there put my Bugden [Bugden, or Buckden, a village and parish in the St. Neots district of Huntingdonshire, four miles S.W. of Huntingdon.] matter in order against the Court, and so to Hinchingbroke, where Mr. Barnwell shewed me the condition of the house, which is yet very backward, and I fear will be very dark in the cloyster when it is done. }}

    clyster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A medicine applied via the rectum; an enema or suppository
  • *, vol.I, New York 2001, p.233-4:
    • Cnelius a physician being sent for, found his costiveness alone to be the cause, and thereupon gave him a clyster , by which he was speedily recovered.