astrictive

English

Adjective

astrictive (comparative more astrictive, superlative most astrictive)

binding; astringent
- 1657, Jean de Renou, A Medicinal Dispensatory, page 383:
  Now there is no small difference in Palmes, Galen himself being Judge, for some are dry and astrictive, as the Egyptian ones; others soft, humid and sweet, as those we call Chariotae; but the best grow in Syria, Palestine, and many Eastern regions, where they suppeditate both meat and drink to the incolists .
- 1781, William Cullen, Lectures on the Materia Medica, page 364:
  Some would allege this to be in consequence of a farther operation in the system, but to me its operation seems to be in the stomach, depending on its solvent, absorbent, and astrictive power. In the intestines it acts as astrictive, and so has been found to stop obstinate Dysentery .
- 1789, Nicholas Culpeper, Culpeper's English Physician; and Complete Herbal, page 5:
  For that which is cold repelleth, and if it hath a crassitude of parts also, it is more violent, as that which is acerbe or austere; yet those things also repell which are astringents, especially those which are helped by the tenuity of their parts: for the thinness of the substance doth much conduce to astriction; therefore other things that are astrictive, by reason of the crassitude of their substance, cannot easily penetrate the more remote parts, precluding the passages.
- 1851 October, “Albuminous Enema of Nitrate of SIlver”, in The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical Philosophy, volume 3, number 25, page 94:
  Dr. Delioux also affirms that his albumeno-nitrate of silver lavements cause no colic, that they have no appreciable topical action, or at least that they have not the astrictive and irritation action of the lavements of nitrate of silver without the albumen, which irritating action causes them to be immediately expelled, whilst the albuminous lavements are retained well and sometimes allow the instetine to absorb the whole, but always a portion of the salt of silver which may be carried from 60 to 75 centigrammes at one time, without causing any irritation.
Constricting; providing limits or strictures.
- 2013, Gui-Rong Liu, G. Y. Zhang, Smoothed Point Interpolation Methods, page 184:
  Other astrictive properties, such as upper bound, lower bound, and tight bounds can also be achieved in S-PIM, by devising properly a strain construction scheme.
Without constriction or strictures.
astrictive gripping
- 1878, Nicholas Harpsfield, Nicholas Pocock, A Treatise on the Pretended Divorce Between Henry VIII. and Catharine of Aragon, page 155:
  Beside, it is not likely that the law meant there should be such a narrow search and examination in this case, being a law astrictive and preceptive.
- 2007, Gareth J. Monkman, Stefan Hesse, Ralf Steinmann, Robot Grippers, page 169:
  As the name implies, astrictive grippers have the property of providing a continuous holding force without the application of compressive stress. Vacuum suction is one of the oldest astrictive gripping methods, and is used extensively throughout industry.
- 2012, Marco Ceccarelli, Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application:
  The astrictive gripping is another major technique used in garment handling and is complementary to the impactive gripping technique.
- 2013, Carola Zwicker and Gunther Reinhart, “Human-Robot-Collaboration System for a Universal Packaging Cell for Heavy Electronic Consumer Goods”, in Michael F. Zaeh, editor, Enabling Manufacturing Competitiveness and Economic Sustainability:
  A binding force produced by a field is astrictive. This field may take the form of fair movement (vacuum suction) , magnetism or electrostatic charge displacement.
Lacking striae.
- 1963, “Variations on some pennate diatoms from Antarctica”, in JARE Scientific Reports, page 22:
  Hustedt also described these types. Both ends are slightly astrictive.