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Restricting

adjective

Restricting the scope or freedom of action. Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting.

Restrict

verb

(past & past part. restricted; pres. part. restricting)

Place restrictions on. Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back.

Place under restrictions; limit access to.

Place limits on (extent or access). Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, throttle, trammel. "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Make more specific. Synonym: qualify.

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... in Parliamentary procedure between Britain and America. During the evening Mr. Gladstone cross-examined Mr. Blaine very thoroughly upon the mode of procedure of the House of Representatives of which Mr. Blaine had been the Speaker. I saw the "previous question," and summary rules with us for restricting needless debate made a deep impression upon Mr. Gladstone. At intervals the ...

— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie

... mean the restricting our wants and desires to what is truly useful to the existence of the citizen and his family; that is to say, the man of simple manners has but few wants, and lives ...

— The Ruins • C. F. [Constantin Francois de] Volney

... to get into his pantaloons as soon as possible. He complied, and then proceeded to wash himself. At that time in the morning any Christian would have washed his face; but Queequeg, to my amazement, contented himself with restricting his ablutions to his chest, arms, and hands. He then donned his waistcoat, and taking up a piece of hard soap on the wash-stand centre table, dipped it into water and commenced lathering his face. I was watching ...

— Moby Dick; or The Whale • Herman Melville

... this respect. Why this express prohibition, if the law-making power cannot abolish slavery? A stately farce, indeed, formally to construct a special clause, and with appropriate rites induct it into the Constitution, for the express purpose of restricting a nonentity!—to take from the lawmaking power what it never had, and what cannot pertain to it! The legislatures of those States have no power to abolish slavery, simply because their Constitutions have expressly taken away that power. The people of Arkansas, Mississippi, &c., well knew the ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... of the Stuarts to the throne of England inaugurated a new period in English criticism, during which English critical theories were largely influenced by French criticism, this study will stop short of this, restricting itself to the years between the publication of Thomas Wilson's Arte of Rhetorique in 1553 and that of Ben Jonson's Timber in 1641. Throughout this period the English mediæval tradition of classical theory was highly important, ...

— Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance - A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism • Donald Lemen Clark

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