astriction

The act of binding; restriction; obligation.

So of marriage he is the author and the witness; yet hence will not follow any divine astriction more than what is subordinate to the glory of God, and the main good of either party.

A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.

constipation

Astriction of the Belly is commonly a sign of strong chylopocerick Organ

astringency

Myrobalanes have it ; and it may be the barks of peaches : for this virtue requireth an astriction ; but such an astriction as is not grateful to the body

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. (The lands were said to be astricted to the mill.)

Payment of dry multures will even imply a title; being exclusive of any other supposition than astriction