Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CO'ARCT, or CO'ARC-TATE
CO'ARCT, or CO'ARC-TATE, v.t. [L. coarcto; con and arcto.]
- To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely. – Bacon.
- To restrain; to confine. – Ayliffe.
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