astrictive

Example Sentences

• "Now there is no small difference in Palmes, Galen himself being Judge, for some are dry and astrictive, as the Egyptian ones; others soft, humid and sweet, as those we call Chariotae; but the best grow in Syria, Palestine, and many Eastern regions, where they suppeditate both meat and drink to the incolists ."
• "Some would allege this to be in consequence of a farther operation in the system, but to me its operation seems to be in the stomach, depending on its solvent, absorbent, and astrictive power. In the intestines it acts as astrictive, and so has been found to stop obstinate Dysentery ."
• "For that which is cold repelleth, and if it hath a crassitude of parts also, it is more violent, as that which is acerbe or austere; yet those things also repell which are astringents, especially those which are helped by the tenuity of their parts: for the thinness of the substance doth much conduce to astriction; therefore other things that are astrictive, by reason of the crassitude of their substance, cannot easily penetrate the more remote parts, precluding the passages."
• "Dr. Delioux also affirms that his albumeno-nitrate of silver lavements cause no colic, that they have no appreciable topical action, or at least that they have not the astrictive and irritation action of the lavements of nitrate of silver without the albumen, which irritating action causes them to be immediately expelled, whilst the albuminous lavements are retained well and sometimes allow the instetine to absorb the whole, but always a portion of the salt of silver which may be carried from 60 to 75 centigrammes at one time, without causing any irritation."
• "Other astrictive properties, such as upper bound, lower bound, and tight bounds can also be achieved in S-PIM, by devising properly a strain construction scheme."
• "astrictive gripping"