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noun

Stricture n.

Strictness. (Obs.) "A man of stricture and firm abstinence."

A stroke; a glance; a touch. (Obs.)

A touch of adverse criticism; censure. "(I have) given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage."

(Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... a hundred curves and cavities, and in each the reflected light made a tapestry of delicate violet and rose. Those who imagine that snow is only white—dead, cold white—have never seen the pure new-fallen snow, when the stricture of the frost begins to bind it; such snow has every colour of the rainbow in it, and where it is beaten fine it is like a dust of diamonds. Under a hard grey sky snow appears dead white; but under such a sun as this it glowed and sparkled with all the glories of an ice cave. And ...

— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson

... would eventually confer upon Negroes civil rights. In conclusion he declared that the Negro had earned all the rights that he then exercised as well as those enjoyed by other citizens, that the current conditions constituted a stricture on the fair name of America, and that the solution of the problem lay in the immediate passage by Congress of the Civil Rights Bill then ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various

... for August, in an article on the work, for the most part commendatory, though certainly without any warmth of praise, makes the prominent stricture upon it to be, a charge against the author of having evaded "the gravest, and in one sense the only serious difficulty, with which the evidences he supports have to contend." This difficulty is defined to be in the question as to whether our four Gospels are essentially ...

— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers

... a severe stricture but in the circumstances I thought best to overlook the reflection upon my mentality. One of the soldiers passed some witticism, evidently at my expense; taking advantage of the outburst of laughter, I made off down the road. They did not offer to detain me. The officer probably reasoned that ...

— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams

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