stricture
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stricture \Stric"ture\, n. [L. strictura a contraction, from
stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See
{Strict}.]
1. Strictness. [Obs.]
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A man of stricture and firm abstinence. --Shak.
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2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
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3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
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[I have] given myself the liberty of these
strictures by way of reflection on all and every
passage. --Hammond.
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4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of
the body. Cf. {Organic stricture}, and {Spasmodic
stricture}, under {Organic}, and {Spasmodic}. --Arbuthnot.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "stricture":
abbreviation, adverse criticism, anathema, animadversion,
arraignment, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, aspersion,
astriction, astringency, bad notices, bad press, blame, blockage,
blocking, bottleneck, captiousness, carping, castigation, cavil,
caviling, censoriousness, censure, cervix, check, circumscription,
clogging, closing up, closure, coarctation, compactedness,
compaction, compression, compressure, concentration, condemnation,
condensation, consolidation, constraint, constriction,
constringency, contraction, contracture, cramp, criticism,
curtailment, damnation, decrease, decrial, delay, denouncement,
denunciation, detainment, detention, deterrent, diminuendo,
exception, excoriation, faultfinding, fixation, flak, flaying,
foot-dragging, fulmination, fustigation, hairsplitting, hampering,
hindering, hindrance, hit, holdback, holdup, home thrust,
hostile criticism, hourglass, hourglass figure, hypercriticalness,
hypercriticism, impeachment, impediment, imputation, indictment,
inhibition, interdiction, interference, interruption, isthmus,
knitting, knock, let, nagging, narrow place, narrowing, neck,
negativism, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nuisance value,
obloquy, obstruction, obstructionism, occlusion, opposition,
overcriticalness, pestering, pettifogging, pillorying,
priggishness, puckering, pursing, quibble, quibbling, rap,
reduction, reflection, reprehension, repression, reproachfulness,
reprobation, resistance, restraint, restriction, retardation,
retardment, setback, shortening, skinning alive, slam,
solidification, squeeze, stranglehold, stranglement, strangulation,
striction, suppression, swipe, systole, taking exception, taper,
tapering, trichoschistism, wasp waist, wrinkling
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