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▪ I. constraining, vbl. n.|kənˈstreɪnɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb constrain; application of constraint.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 517 Ȝoven frely wiþouten exaccioun or constreynynge. c1440Promp. Parv. 91 Constreynynge, coaccio. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 74 The Chirch hath not the power of compelling, nor oughte to require it (I speake of ciuile constrayning). 1644Milton Judgm. Bucer (1851) 294 A bondage not of Gods constraining.
▪ II. conˈstraining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
1. That constrains.
1602Carew Cornwall 127 a, Not through any constrayning necessitie or constraintiue vowe. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. xii. §4. 178 That the constraining Power [of Government]..should be left wholly to the Lawes themselves. 1784Cowper Tirocin. 861 Free, too, and under no constraining force. 1856Tait & Steele Dynamics of Particle (1871) 184 To find the point where the particle will leave the constraining curve. Ibid. 386 When there are..constraining forces; such as when two or more of the particles are connected by inextensible strings, etc.
†2. Of medicines: Constringing or drawing together, astringent. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxix. (1495) 289 The leche vsith constraynynge and dryenge medycynes. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 161 If þou leidist þerto ony constreyning þingis þe akynge wolde be þe more. |