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He binds in chains

The drowsy prophet, and his limbs constrains.

Dryden.

When winter frosts constrain the fields
with cold.

Dryden.

2. To bring into a narrow compass; to
compress.

How the strait stays the slender waist
constrain.

Gay.

3. To hold back by force; to restrain; to
repress.

My sire in caves constrains the winds.

Dryden.

4. To compel; to force; to necessitate;
to oblige.

The love of Christ constraineth us.

2. Cor. v. 14.

I was constrained to appeal unto
Cæsar.

Acts xxviii. 19.

5. To violate; to ravish. [Obs.]
Shak.

6. To produce in such a manner as to give
an unnatural effect; as, a constrained voice.

Syn. -- To compel; force; drive; impel; urge;
press.


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