What does "restrain" mean?
Restrain: To draw back toghtly, as a rein. [Obs.] Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge. Though they two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Clarendon.
- 3.To limit; to confine; to restrict. Trench. Not only a metaphysical or natural, but a moral, universality also is to be restrained by a part of the predicate. I. Watts.
- 4.To withhold; to forbear. Thou restrained prayer before God. Job. xv.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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