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Stricture   Listen
noun
Stricture  n.  
1.
Strictness. (Obs.) "A man of stricture and firm abstinence."
2.
A stroke; a glance; a touch. (Obs.)
3.
A touch of adverse criticism; censure. "(I have) given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage."
4.
(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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"Stricture" Quotes from Famous Books



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

... just as he used to be. But when she remembered Wilford's words, "He confessed to me that he loved you," she felt only a nervous dread of Morris' coming, and forthwith set to work to fortify herself at every point with a stricture of reserve which she was far ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes

... unexpected suavity, merely remarking pleasantly, as an item of general interest, "The only time my partner ever leads a trump is when the adversaries call." I smiled inanely—what else could I do? for I was dimly conscious that the stricture might have justification in fact. Yes, this was bad; but worse remains behind. In the last hand of the next rubber, my partner had four trumps; so had I; he had, besides a very long suit; hence he extracted the trumps, and ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 19, 1892 • Various

... of the common voice, which attributed Cromwell's downfall to the ugliness of this bride he procured for his Bluebeard master. To the common voice from the brush of Holbein, which permits us to form our own opinions and shows us a lady who is certainly very far from deserving his lordship's harsh stricture. Similarly, I like to believe that Lord Henry was wrong in his pronouncement upon Sir Oliver, and I am encouraged in this belief by the pen-portrait which he himself appends to it. "He was," he says, "a tall, powerful fellow of a good shape, ...
— The Sea-Hawk • Raphael Sabatini

... had erected no fortifications for his encampment. His frenzied efforts on the battlefield seem like a mad rush against fate; for the place was indefensible against the peculiar tactics of the frontiersmen. While the mountain flamed like a volcano and resounded with the thunder of the guns, a steady stricture was in progress. The lines were drawn tighter and tighter around the trapped and frantically struggling army; and at last the fall of their commander, riddled with bullets, proved the tragic futility of further resistance. The ...
— The Conquest of the Old Southwest • Archibald Henderson

... unrepresentative to frame one's policy of selection too rigidly on that score. Had such a method been adhered to, many of the plays written for Edwin Forrest would have to be omitted from consideration. It would have been difficult, because of this stricture, to include representative examples of dramas by the Philadelphia and Knickerbocker schools of playwrights. Robert T. Conrad's "Jack Cade," John Howard Payne's "Brutus," George Henry Boker's "Francesca da Rimini," and Nathaniel ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists - 1765-1819 • Various

... time to time such directions, admonitions, or censures, as the exigence of affairs, in his opinion, made proper; and nothing fell from his pen in vain. In a short poem on the Presbyterians, whom he always regarded with detestation, he bestowed one stricture upon Bettesworth, a lawyer eminent for his insolence to the clergy, which, from very considerable reputation, brought him into immediate and universal contempt. Bettesworth, enraged at his disgrace and loss, went to Swift, and demanded whether he was the author of that poem? "Mr. Bettesworth," ...
— Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, and Swift • Samuel Johnson



Words linked to "Stricture" :   aortic stenosis, pyloric stenosis, mitral valve stenosis, pathology, enterostenosis, rhinostenosis, criticism, laryngostenosis, mitral stenosis, ureterostenosis, pulmonary stenosis, stenosis, unfavorable judgment



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