stricture (striktur)

[= F. stricture = It. strettura, Christ... came to knit the bonds of government faster by the stricture of more religious ties. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 207. 2. In pathol., a morbid contraction of some mucous canal or duct of the body, as the esophagus, intestine, urethra, or vagina.-31. Strict ne . A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak., M. for M., i. 3. 12. 4. Sharp criticism; critical remark; censure. I leave it [autobiography) wholly, both as to the matter and stile, to your emendations. By your blots and strictures it may receive a beauty which of itself it had J. Cotton , in Aubrey's Letters and Lives, I. 20. 51. Mark; trace; evidence; sign. not. The God of nature implanted in their vegetable natures certain pa ive strictures, or signatures, of that wisdom which hath made and ordered all things with the highest Sir M. Hale , Orig. of Mankind, p. 46. reason.