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Definition of Astringed
1. astringe [v] - See also: astringe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astringed
Literary usage of Astringed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alcohol, a Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine by Fritz Wilhelm Woll, Alfred Fournier, Martha Meir Allen (1900)
"... astringed, the movements may entirely cease so as to appear lifeless, but when
a stimulant is again added the same result is obtained as before—it ..."
2. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet, Edward Nares (1843)
"... the Pope's Holiness may be so be better to the Kind's purpose than this
astringed ; which ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The fragmentary character of the notes that compose it, the pregnant and
deliberately " astringed " style in which these notes are written, so that they are ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The fragmentary character of the notes that compose it, the pregnant and
deliberately " astringed " style in which these notes are written, so that they are ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1904)
"... and yet leave sufficient matter in the conscience of a king upon the same
evidence to pardon his life; because the peers are astringed by necessity ..."
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