astriction

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

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

From which doctrine I gather, that the Author of Marchena, was in an errour, who, writing of Chocolate, saith that it causeth Opilations, because Cacao is astringent; as if that astriction were not corrected, by the intimate mixing of one part with another, by meanes of the grinding, as is said before.

The qualities of Vitrioll, according to Dioscorides, Galen, Ætius, Paulus Ægineta, and Oribasius, are to heate and dry, to bind, to resist putrefaction, to give strength and vigour to the interiour parts, to kill the flat wormes of the belly, to remedy venemous mushromes, to preserve flesh over moyst from corruption, consuming the moysture thereof by its heat, and constipating by his astriction the substance of it, and pressing forth the serous humidity.

Antonyms: unbind, loose. binding, n. ligature, ligsation, astriction, constriction bandage; obligation, reestraint, restriction; galloon swaddling. binding, a. astringent, astrictive; obligatory, valid.