stricture Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
    stenosis.
  2. noun severe criticism

WordNet

Stric"ture noun
Etymology
L. strictura a contraction, from stringere, strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.
Definitions
  1. Strictness. Obs.
    A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak.
  2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. Obs. Sir M. Hale.
  3. A touch of adverse criticism; censure.
    [I have] given myself the liberty of these strictures by way of reflection on all and every passage. Hammond.
  4. (Med.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot.

Webster 1913