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▪ I. restrict, v.|rɪˈstrɪkt|
Also 8– Sc. restrick.
[f. L. restrict-, ppl. stem (cf. next) of restringĕre to restringe.
Designated by Johnson (1755) as ‘a word scarce English’, and included by Dr. Beattie among his Scoticisms (1787).]
1. trans. To confine (some person or thing) to or within certain limits; to limit or bound.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 3813 Verteous men that labours with thair hands, Resonabillie restrictit with sic bands, That thay do service. 1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 1474/1 Neither shoulde we haue any more wherwith to vexe them with confessions, cases reserued, restricted, or ampliated for our gayne. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments vi. (1735) 218 In the Enumeration of Constitutions..there is not one that can be limited and restricted by such a Distinction. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iii. ii. (1904) I. 430 The common law of England..is said to abhor perpetuities, and they are accordingly more restricted there than in any other European monarchy. 1836J. Gilbert Chr. Atonem. viii. (1852) 224 God himself is yet restricted in the exercise of his compassion. 1874Green Short Hist. vii. §1. 351 The power of preaching was restricted by the issue of licences only to the friends of the Primate.
b. To restrain by prohibition.
1835Penny Cycl. III. 381/1 The act of 1797, which restricted the Bank from making payments in gold.
2. To tie up, confine by tying. rare—1.
1824J. H. Wiffen Tasso xvi. xxiii, Gathering up..Her hair, restricting each resplendent tress.
3. To withhold or keep (a thing) from some person's knowledge. rare—1.
1802E. Parsons Myst. Visit I. 38 It is a very bad compliment paid to your wife, that this secret business of your's should be restricted from her knowledge.
Hence reˈstricting ppl. a.
1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation xi. (1852) 258 Such restricting conditions as at present interfere with the growth of the Church. 1894Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 2/3 A minimum of restricting conditions and the slenderest possible examination test.
▪ II. † reˈstrict, ppl. a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. restrict-us: see prec. So Sp. and Pg. restricto, It. ristretto.]
a. Strict.
b. Limited. Also restrict line (see quot. 1678).
a1654Gataker Just Man 224 (Latham), Men..in some one or two things demeaning themselves as exceedingly restrict, but in many others, or the most things, as remisse. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Restrict Line (in Chiromancy) is that which distinguisheth, and separates the hand from the arm, either by a simple or double transcursion. 1681H. More Exp. Dan. vi. 232 Which Time of the End here has a more restrict signification. |