Word Meanings - CONSTRAINTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.

CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
CAREWORN
Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.
CONSTRAINED
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
COMPULSORY
1. Having the power of compulsion; constraining. 2. Obligatory; enjoined by authority; necessary; due to complusion. This contribution therestening fall infinitely short of their hopes, they soon made it compulsory. Burke.
CONSTRAINT
The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity. Long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Not by constraint, but bDryden. Syn. -- Compulsion;
CONSTRAINABLE
Capable of being constrained; liable to constraint, or to restraint. Hooker.
CONSTRAINER
One who constrains.
CONSTRAINEDLY
By constraint or compulsion; in a constrained manner. Hooker.
CONSTRAIN
constringere; con- + stringere to draw tight. See Strain, and. cf. 1. To secure by bonds; to chain; to bond or con He binds in hains The droway prophet, and his limbs constrains. Dryden. When winter frosts constrain the fields with old. Dryden.
UNCONSTRAINT
Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.