English edit

Etymology edit

Latin constringens, present participle.

Adjective edit

constringent (comparative more constringent, superlative most constringent)

  1. Having the quality of contracting, binding, or compressing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “constringent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin edit

Verb edit

cōnstringent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of cōnstringō