Definition for CO'ARCT, or CO'ARC-TATE

CO'ARCT, or CO'ARC-TATE, v.t. [L. coarcto; con and arcto.]

  1. To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. – Bacon.
  2. To restrain; to confine. – Ayliffe.

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