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Definition of Astringe
1. Verb. Constrict or bind or draw together. "Lemon juice astringes the tissue in the mouth"
Derivative terms: Astringent, Astringent
2. Verb. Become constricted or compressed. "The cold substance astringes"
Definition of Astringe
1. v. t. To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.
Definition of Astringe
1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To constrict, to compress ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To become constricted or compressed ¹
3. Verb. To bind by moral or legal obligation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Astringe
1. to bind or draw together [v -TRINGED, -TRINGING, -TRINGES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astringe
Literary usage of Astringe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"... to stay ; to rein or draw in, to rein or pull up (a horse); to restrain,
control; 3. to seize, detain, arrest (a debtor &c.); 4. Med. to astringe; 5. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"37 ; and to astringe in Holland's Plutarch, p. 819. ... See astringe. astringe,
to draw closely together. (Lat.) In Holland's Plutarch, p. ..."
3. Selections from the World's Devotional Classics by George William Gilmore (1916)
"But the desire can not thus magically astringe, compress, or strive to inclose
without drawing and attracting: but drawing is motion, which is the highest ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by John Oswald, Joseph Thomas, James Lynd, John Miller Keagy (1868)
"3. to hold fast, to bind, to contract ; as, astringe', to bind, to contract;
constringe', constrict',-- to draw together, to contract. astringe', ..."
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