prestriction

English

Etymology

From Latin praestrictio (“a binding fast”), from praestringere. See pre-, and stringent.

Noun

prestriction

1. (obsolete) obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight
   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus, Section III:

     Boast not of your eyes; it is feared you have Balaam's disease, a pearl in your eye, Mammon's prestriction.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prestriction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)