constringent
contracting, binding, or compressing.
Adjective
- contracting, binding, or compressing.
- constringent action
- constringent motion
- Our strengthen'd bodies in its cold embrace, Constringent; feeds, and animates our blood - a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […],...
Origin
From Latin constringens.