constringent
English
Etymology
Latin constringens, present participle.
Adjective
constringent (comparative more constringent, superlative most constringent)
- contracting, binding, or compressing.
- constringent action
- constringent motion
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- Our strengthen'd bodies in its cold embrace,
Constringent; feeds, and animates our blood
References
- “constringent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
cōnstringent
- third-person plural future active indicative of cōnstringō