astriction

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Astriction to the soil was at once the foundation and the symbol of that serfdom.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by Wylie, James Aitken

Astriction, as-trik′shun, n. a binding or contraction: restriction.—v.t.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various