contractt (kontrakt)

[L. contract us, pp.: see the verb.] 1. Condensed; brief. I have bene ye larger in these things,... (thoug in other things I shal labour to be more contracte), that their children may see with what difficulties their fathers wrastled. Bradford , Plymouth Plantation, p. 58. 2. Concrete. Number is first divided as you see, For number abstract, and number contract . T. Hylle (1600). 3. Contracted; affianced; betrothed. First was he contract to Lady Lucy - Your mother lives a witne to his vow. Shak., Rich. III., iii. 7. Contract forms, contract conjugation, contract verbs, forms, etc., exhibiting contraction of different vowels into a long vowel or diphthong. contract