5. To withhold; to forbear.
Thou restrained prayer before God.
Job. xv. 4. Syn. — To check; hinder; stop; withhold; repress; curb; suppress; coerce; restrict; limit; confine.
Restrainable
(Re*strain"a*ble) a. Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
Restrainedly
(Re*strain"ed*ly), adv. With restraint. Hammond.
Restrainer
(Re*strain"er) n. One who, or that which, restrains.
Restrainment
(Re*strain"ment) n. The act of restraining.
Restraint
(Re*straint") n. [OF. restraincte, fr. restrainct, F. restreint, p. p. of restraindre, restrendre.
See Restrain.]
1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance
of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
No man was altogether above the restrains of law, and no man altogether below its protection.
Macaulay. 2. The state of being restrained.
3. That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
For one restraint, lords of the world besides.
Milton. Syn. — Repression; hindrance; check; stop; curb;oercion; confinement; limitation; restriction.