astriction

noun5

1. •
   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. — 1644
2. •
   A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance.
3. •
   (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.)

   • Payment of dry multures will even imply a title; being exclusive of any other supposition than astriction — 1833
4. •
   (no longer used) 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 — 1627
5. •
   (no longer used) constipation

   • Astriction of the Belly is commonly a sign of strong chylopocerick Organ — 1731