astringe
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astringe (third-person singular simple present astringes, present participle astringing, simple past and past participle astringed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To constrict, to compress
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become constricted or compressed
- To bind by moral or legal obligation.
- c. 1555, John Harpsfield, Divorce of Henry VIII:
- God's mind was to astringe and bind the Church perpetually to it.
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astringe
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /asˈtrin.ɡe/, [äs̠ˈt̪rɪŋɡɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /asˈtrin.d͡ʒe/, [äsˈt̪rin̠ʲd͡ʒe]
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astringe
- inflection of astringir: