ppl. a. [f. ASTRICT v. + -ED.] Confined, restricted; spec. in Sc. Law applied to lands held on such terms that the tenant must take grain grown upon them to be ground at a particular mill, paying a toll called multure or thirlage.

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1656.  Fergusson, On Coloss., 130. That astricted dispensation under the Old Testament.

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1754.  Erskine, Princ. Sc. Law (1809), 229. Thirlage may be extinguished by a charter of the astricted lands.

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1819.  J. Greig, Rep. Affairs Edinb., 37. Astricted multures payable by the brewers.

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