Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Causing constriction; having the quality of constricting, contracting, or puckering; extremely astringent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the quality of
contracting ,binding , orcompressing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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You think I will not strew constringent objects to see how you are effected?
Something is wrong with secondary education in the U.S. Angry Professor 2008
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Please email me a constringent file which contains all the lecture slides, notes and syllabus for this course.
Have you ever gotten one of these? Angry Professor 2008
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Please email me a constringent file which contains all the lecture slides, notes and syllabus for this course.
Archive 2008-04-01 Angry Professor 2008
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For that the cold of water is naturally constringent is evident from snow, which keeps flesh from corrupting a long time.
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For that the cold of water is naturally constringent is evident from snow, which keeps flesh from corrupting a long time.
Symposiacs 2004
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The antecedent causes of gout, Gilbert tells us, are a heat too solvent, cold too constringent (f. 311 c), sometimes a strong bath or a severe journey in a plethoric person (_in plectorico_), again excessive coitus after a full meal (_satietatem_), or even habitual excess, by which the joints are weakened and deprived of their natural heat and subtile moisture.
Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson
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It is by way of introducing a constringent principal into a mass of amorphic particles, that Plato proclaims that these friends will have all things in common; and, challenged by the questions of his companions in the dialogue to say how far he will be ready to go in the application of so paradoxical a rule, he braces himself to a surprising degree of consistency.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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Winter binds our strengthened bodies in a cold embrace constringent.
Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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