different between striction vs astriction

English

Etymology

From Latin strictio. See stringent.

Noun

striction

1. The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.

Derived terms

• line of striction

English

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin astrictio. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

astriction (countable and uncountable, plural astrictions)

1. The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
   • 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Book I, Ch. XIII.

2. (medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.

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3. (obsolete) constipation

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4. (obsolete) astringency

   • Myrobalanes have it ; and it may be the barks of peaches : for this virtue requireth an astriction ; but such an astriction as is not grateful to the body

5. (law, Scotland, historical) An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)

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Anagrams

• citrations, trications