Striction vs Astriction - What's the difference?
striction | astriction |
The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted.
The act of binding; restriction; obligation.
(medicine) A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
(obsolete) constipation
(obsolete) astringency
(legal, Scotland, historical) 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.)
As nouns the difference between striction and astriction
is that striction is the act of constricting, or the state of being constricted while astriction is the act of binding; restriction; obligation.striction
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* line of striction (Webster 1913)astriction
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