Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Restricted. See astriction, 3. Formerly also adstricted.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of astrict.
  • adjective restricted or confined; especially, in old Scottish law, describing land on which corn must be sent to a particular mill, paying multure or thirlage on it

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Examples

  • Swathed in his abominable surplusage of bulk, he is as fair as any statue of astricted god or athlete that would suffer not by incarnation ...

    Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914

  • But what! thought he this power of kings is not astricted to the rules of the word?

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

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