Also 7–9 adstrict. [f. L. astrict- ppl. stem of astringĕre to ASTRINGE.]

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  1.  trans. To bind up, confine within narrow limits, compress; hence, to render costive.

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1548.  Hall, Chron., 239. The Course of water astricted … will flow and burst out in continuance of tyme.

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1650.  trans. Bacon’s Life & Death, 42. The Stomach … to be … Astricted or bound, not Loose.

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1863.  C. Walton, in N. & Q., Ser. III. IV. 406. A little globe, so contracted, astricted, and narrowed, that it had as to appearance no life.

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  2.  To bind by moral or legal obligation.

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1513–75.  Diurn. Occurr. (1833), 108. His fader was astrictit be souerties in parliament.

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1688.  Ess. Magistr., in Harl. Misc., I. 7. Tied to the same rules they were adstricted to.

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1880.  Muirhead, Gaius, III. § 87. Whether a man … be astricted to the inheritance by necessity of law.

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  3.  To restrict, tie down, limit to.

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1588.  A. King, trans. Canisius’ Catech., H v. b. Ye monethes … war æquall to ye cowrse of ye moon: Ȝeit war thay nocht astricted yairto.

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1619.  Sacrilege Sacr. Handled, 6. Holy meates were astricted to only holy persons.

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1836–7.  Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xl. (1870), II. 403. The mind is thus astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought.

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  4.  Sc. Law. To restrict in tenure. See ASTRICTED.

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