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restringe, v.|rɪˈstrɪndʒ| [ad. L. restringĕre to bind fast, confine, f. re- re- + stringĕre to draw tight. So Sp. and Pg. restringir, It. ristringere.] †1. trans. To affect (a person) with costiveness; to have an astringent effect upon (a part of the body). Obs. Cf. restringing ppl. a.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 27 b/2 If the patient be restringed and bounde in his belly, and hath in a longe time not binne at stool. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 138 Whether he be most commonly laxative or restringed. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), To Restringe, to bind hard, to make costive; as, Quinces restringe those Parts which they are apply'd to. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 204 The Intestine is less restringed. absol.1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 122 It [sc. an electuary] Incrassates, Restringes, Heats. 2. To confine, limit, restrict. Now rare.
1604T. Wright Passions ii. iii. 59 Of Passions..some..dilate, and some compresse and restringe the heart. 1652Benlowes Theoph. iii. vii, Pure Knowledge, thou art not restring'd. Thy flames enfire the bushie heart, yet leave 't unsing'd. 1670Tryal of W. Penn & W. Mead App., To decline making any Act that may in the least seem to restringe..this..Great Charter of the Liberties of England. 1839J. Rogers Antipopopr. xii. §5. 278 The fear of hell being found..too little to bind and restringe the bad inclination of the great majority. |