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distraint|dɪˈstreɪnt|
[f. distrain v., perh. after OF. destrainte (13–16th c. in Godef.), destraincte ‘a restraint of libertie’ (Cotgr.), fem. n. from pa. pple.: cf. constraint.]
The action of distraining (in the legal sense); = distress n. 3.
1730–6in Bailey (folio). 1833H. Martineau Loom & Lugger i. vii. 115 There would be a distraint for penalties. 1869Daily News 25 Aug., The bailiffs shortly afterwards entered the house, and..made a distraint which almost stripped it of furniture. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §10. 571 Payment of taxes..was enforced by distraint. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. ix. 262 The distraint of cattle for damages still retains a variety of archaic features.
b. distraint of knighthood: compulsion to accept knighthood (in consequence of tenure of a knight's fee, or an estate worth {pstlg}20 a year). (See distrain v. 7 b, quot. 1647.)
1875Stubbs Const. Hist. II. xv. 281 The distraint of knighthood was..a link between the two branches of the national force. |