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▪ I. astrict, v.|əˈstrɪkt|
Also 7–9 adstrict.
[f. L. astrict- ppl. stem of astringĕre to astringe.]
1. trans. To bind up, confine within narrow limits, compress; hence, to render costive.
1548Hall Chron. 239 The Course of water astricted..will flow and burst out in continuance of tyme. 1650tr. Bacon's Life & Death 42 The Stomach..to be..Astricted or bound, not Loose. 1863C. Walton in N. & Q. Ser. iii. IV. 406 A little globe, so contracted, astricted, and narrowed, that, etc.
2. To bind by moral or legal obligation.
1513–75Diurn. Occurr. (1833) 108 His fader was astrictit be souerties in parliament. 1688Ess. Magistr. in Harl. Misc. I. 7 Tied to the same rules they were adstricted to. 1880Muirhead Gaius iii. §87 Whether a man..be astricted to the inheritance by necessity of law.
3. To restrict, tie down, limit to.
1588A. King Canisius' Catech. H v. b, Y⊇ monethes..war æquall to y⊇ cowrse of y⊇ moon: Ȝeit war thay nocht astricted yairto. 1619Sacrilege Sacr. Handled 6 Holy meates were astricted to only holy persons. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xl. (1870) II. 403 The mind is thus astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought.
4. Sc. Law. To restrict in tenure. See astricted.
▪ II. † aˈstrict, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. astrictus; see prec.]
Compressed, concise.
1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 8 An Epitaph is..an astrict pithie Diagram. |