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单词 restringent
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restringentadj.n.

Brit. /rᵻˈstrɪn(d)ʒ(ə)nt/, U.S. /rəˈstrɪndʒ(ə)nt/, /riˈstrɪndʒ(ə)nt/
Forms: 1500s restryngente, 1500s– restringent.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin restringent-, restringēns, restringere.
Etymology: < classical Latin restringent-, restringēns, present participle of restringere restringe v. Compare French restringent , adjective (1537, now rare), noun (1623, now rare), Catalan restringent , adjective (early 17th cent.), Spanish †restringente , adjective and noun (late 15th cent.). Compare slightly earlier restringitive adj. and restringing adj. Compare also earlier restraining adj. and restrictive adj. With use as noun in sense B. 2 compare earlier restrictory n.
A. adj.
1. Medicine. Binding; drying; constricting; spec. tending to halt or prevent the flow of body fluids, esp. blood or diarrhoea. Cf. astringent adj. 1. Now rare.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [adjective]
bindingc1384
restraininga1398
straininga1398
constraining1398
strictivea1400
stypticc1400
restrictive?a1425
styptical1528
astringent?1541
constrictive1541
restringitive1559
astrictive1562
restringing1562
restringent1565
constringent1603
astrictory1620
styptive1640
constipating1658
stegnotic1674
staltic1748
constringing1757
apocrustic1853
the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [adjective] > specifically of outward applications
restringent1565
1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 90 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. And (because it is restryngente) is profitably geuen to Dysentericis, muliebri profluuio, and to reiections of bloude.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. vii. v. f. 38v/2 We must as then strowe some restringent poulder one that parte, and applye therone..an ordinarye restringent, or defensive plaster.
a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 36 The sand..doth (by the restringent quality..of the salt water) become a stone.
1689 J. Moyle Abstr. Sea Chyrurg. i. 18 Let your Restringent Powder be there likewise with the rest of your first intentions.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Scabbed Heels After which apply a restringent Charge of Powder of unslack'd Lime.
1795 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 3) I. 264 This will be found to vary frequently; sometimes calling for restringent, and at others, opening remedies.
1852 B. B. Cooper Lect. Princ. & Pract. Surg. xvii. 428 Strict attention to diet, change of air, tonic medicines, shower baths,and restringent injections into the rectum, are all requisite.
1977 R. B. Tisserand Art of Aromatherapy xi. 215 Because of its restringent effect on body fluids one would expect it to be most useful for the phlegmatic, loquacious type.
2. Constipated. Cf. astringent adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [adjective] > constipated
fastOE
costivea1400
hardbound?a1425
embowelled1486
encumber1486
bound1530
constipate1542
constipated1547
styptic1582
costic1595
belly-bound1607
restringenta1661
unmoved1810
confined1822
screwbound1837
impacted1844
a1661 W. Brereton Trav. (1844) 191 My body was not costive and restringent, but soluble and laxative sufficient.
3. Having an astringent taste. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > [adjective] > astringent
stypticc1400
austere?a1425
Pontic?a1425
harshc1440
styptical1528
unmild1566
stringent1605
styptive1640
restringent1683
subastringent1788
puckery1833
1683 G. Harvey Conclave of Physicians xvi. 178 It [sc. Jesuits Bark] is restringent, the Tast doth attest by the perception of Contraction, and roughness upon the Tongue.
1753 J. Cooke in J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. liv. 364 [Water] which appears to be impregnated with allom, being so acid and restringent as not to be borne long in the mouth.
1809 W. Nicholson Brit. Encycl. I. at Anacardium The fruit has an agreeable subacid flavour, in some degree restringent.
1859 J. King Amer. Dispensatory (ed. 5) i. 27 The plant possesses a faint, pleasant, peculiar fragrance, and a rather sharp, rough, restringent taste.
B. n.
1. A word, etc., which has a limitative or restricting force. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > modifier or qualifier
qualifier1589
restringenta1626
restrictive1642
modificativea1661
qualificativea1661
modifier1865
a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) x. 461 But if you will have pauperibus a restringent, you may: but then you must take it for poor in spirit.
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 4 Non-conformists..do indeed tell us of the death of our Lord Jesus, not with your ill appropriat and restringent only, but do preach to us alwayes and principally this doctrine of his Cross.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. 268 We might well call its two propositions together the restringent or restrictive,..and the product the restrict or restricted.
2. Medicine. A restringent medicine or treatment. Cf. astringent n. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun]
restrictorya1398
styptica1400
restrictivec1425
clammer1597
astringent1626
astrictive1657
subastringent1661
astringer1662
restringent1666
stegnotic1684
apocrustic1706
obstruent1892
1666 G. Harvey Morbus Anglicus xxxv. 223 The two latter indicate Phlebotomy for revulsion, restringents to stench, and incrassatives to thicken the blood.
1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 28 Would you not think that Physician mad, who having prescribed a Purge, should immediately order you to take restringents upon it?
1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. vi. 83 They should on the fourth Day return to the Senate House, attended by their Apothecaries stored with proper Medicines, and before the Members sate, administer to each of them Lenitives, Aperitives, Abstersives, Corrosives, Restringents, [etc.].
1792 ‘A. Pasquin’ Children of Thespis (rev. ed.) ii. 208 He's been fed with restringents, and curtain-rod diet.
1821 W. Liddle Poems 183 As your friends hae ta'en the sk—ers, They'll need restringents.
1884–5 J. U. Lloyd & C. J. Lloyd Drugs & Medicines N. Amer. I. 50 (note) Astringents (or restringents) were..always understood to be remedies that ‘contracted’, ‘puckered’ (the mouth, etc.), and the meaning tonic is only secondary.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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