constrain, const reign, constreinen, constreynen, constreynyn

t. [O. Fr. constraindre, from Lat. const rin go = to bind together, to fetter: con = cum with, together, and stringo = to draw tight; Fr. contraindre: Ital. constrignere, con string ere; Sp. constreñir; Port.constringir.] *I. Literally: 1. To bring into a narrow compa , to compre , to shrink. "Sumtyme sche constreynede and schronk hir seluen lycke to the comune mesure of men." Chaucer: Boethius, p. 5. 2. To restrain, hinder, or keep down by force. "My sire in caves constrains the winds."-Dryden. 3. To bind, to tie. "With their rich belts their captive arms constrains." Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. xxi., 1. 36, 4. To confine, to pre , to clasp, to hold tightly. "And with sweet ki es in her arms constrains." Dryden. 5. To imprison, to shut up, to confine. "Constrain'd him in a bird, and made him fly With party-color'd plumes, a chatt'ring pye." II. Figuratively : Dryden. *1. To bind, to constringe. "When winter frosts constrain the field with cold." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic ii. 430. 2. To restrain, to withhold, to keep back or down. “... overweak to resist the first inclination of evil, or after, when it became habitual, to constrain it." Raleigh . power. 3. To force, to compel; to urge with irresistible Prompt . Parry "Constreynyn. Compello , cogo, coarceo, arto, urgeo." whom a strong sense of duty had constrained on take it to take a step of awful importance."- Macaulay: Hist. *4. To nece itate, to compel. "When to his lust Ægysthus gave the rein, Did fate or we th' adult'rous act constrain ?" Pope. Homer; Ody ey i. 46. *5. To urge on. xxxii. 18. to. IMG:content-0723.png:[blocks in formation] in the Commentary of Quesnel were heretical. They cated in the Bull Uni gen it us, that 101 propositions compulsion to anything; a ruler. were called also Acceptants. They consisted of the the people. Wycliffe : Exod . v. 6. Jesuits and their allies; the Jansenists were on the other side, and were called Appellants and Recus- ants.