astriction

Ultimately from Latin astrictio. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /əˈstɹɪk.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɪkʃən

astriction (countable and uncountable, plural astrictions)

1. The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
   • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Book I, Ch. XIII:

     So of marriage he is the author and the witness; yet hence will not follow any divine astriction more than what is subordinate to the glory of God, and the main good of either party.

2. (medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
3. (obsolete) constipation
   • 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. , London: J Tonson , →OCLC:

     Astriction of the Belly is commonly a sign of strong chylopocerick Organ

4. (obsolete) astringency
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis , “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , London: William Rawley ; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:

     Myrobalanes have it ; and it may be the barks of peaches : for this virtue requireth an astriction ; but such an astriction as is not grateful to the body

5. (law, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)
   • 1833, George Joseph Bell, Principles of the Law of Scotland:

     Payment of dry multures will even imply a title; being exclusive of any other supposition than astriction

“astriction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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