restrain ment (rest ran ment)

[ or mental. Thus it shall befall Him who, to worth in woman overtrusting, Lets her will rule; restraint she will not brook. Milton, P. L., ix. 1184. Wherever thought is wholly wanting, or the power to act or forbear according to the direction of thought, there nece ity takes place. This, in an agent capable of volition, when the beginning or continuation of any action is contrary to that preference of his mind, is called compulsion; when the hindering or stopping any action is contrary to his volition, it is called restraint. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxi. § 13. 2. The state of being repre ed, curbed, or held back in any way; specifically, abridgment of liberty; confinement; detention. I... heartily request The enfranchisement of Arthur; whose restraint Doth move the murmuring lips of discontent. Shak ., K. John, iv. 2. 52. Restraint is for the savage, the rapacious, the violent; not for the just, the gentle, the benevolent. H. Spencer , Social Statics, p. 25. 3. Repre ion of extravagance, exaggeration, or vehemence; constraint in manner or style; IMG:content-2095.png:[blocks in formation] Whether they [ restraints ] be from God or Nature, from Reason or Conscience, as long as they are restraints , they look on them as inconsistent with their notion of liberty. Stilling fleet , Sermons, II. iii. 5. Restriction; limitation, as in application or definition. The positive laws which Moses gave, they were given for the greatest part with restraint to the land of Jewry. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 11. 6. In dynam., an absolute geometrical condition supposed to be precisely fulfilled: thus, a body moving upon an unyielding surface is subject to a restraint. - Restraint bed and chair, forms of apparatus used in controlling the insane, as when they exhibit suicidal or homicidal tendencies. = Syn. 1 and check, stop, curb, hold-back. res tri all (re-strial), a. In her., divided barwise, palewise, and pilewise: said of the field. restrict (re-strikt'), v. t. [ Restraining all manner of people to bear sail in any ve el or bottom wherein there were above five persons. North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 7. bridle, coerce. Restrain and repre are general words for holding or pre ing back; restrict applies to holding back to a more definite degree: as, to restrain one's appetite; to restrict one's self in food or to a certain diet. That which we restrain we keep within limits; that which we restrict we keep within certain definite limits; that which we repre we try to put out of existence. restrainable (re-str a'na-bl), a . [ restrain + -able.] Capable of being restrained. restrainedly (re-str a'ned-li), adv . With re- IMG:content-2096.png:[blocks in formation] a certain limit in any kind of action; limit; restrain. Neither shoulde we haue any more wherewith to vexe them with confe ions, cares reserued, restricted , or ampliated for our gaine. Foxe , Acts, etc., p. 1173, Hen. VIII. If the canon law had restricted itself to really spiritual questions,.. it is not likely that the kings would have been jealous of papal or arch i-episcopal enactments. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 316. 2. To attach limitations to (a proposition or conception), so that it shall not apply to all the subjects to which it would otherwise seem to apply: as, a restricted sense of a word. By restricting the omnitude or universality either of the subject or predicate. Sir W. Hamilton , Logic, App. iii. = Syn. 1. Repre , etc. (see restrain ), hedge in. IMG:content-2097.png:[blocks in formation] Sir W. Hamilton , Logic, App. iii. restrictedly (rē-strik'ted-li), adv . In a restricted manner; with limitation.