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单词 angustiate
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angustiatev.

Forms: 1600s angustiat, 1600s 1800s angustiate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin angustiat-, angustiare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin angustiat-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of angustiare to compress, to narrow (see anguish v.).
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To limit, confine, or restrict.
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1608 H. Wotton Let. 20 June (P.R.O.: SP 99/5) f. 143 Wherevppon I haue thought to propose humbly vnto His Maiesties great wisdome whether it shall not be fitt to proscribe him that he may walke in the more feare which will angustiat his counsayles and spende them about his owne securitie.
1670 N. Cross Cynosura 240 This..argues a baseness of Spirit, which is angustiated within the limits of flesh and blood.
1866 J. O'Sullivan tr. R. Bellarmine Comm. Bk. Psalms (cxvii. 5) 369/2 He now begins to tell what he is going to praise God for, and it is for his having been in trouble, or, as the Hebrew has it, angustiated, or compassed in a narrow place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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