Bible Dictionaries
Coarctate

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(a.) To restrain; to confine.

(2):

(a.) Pressed together; closely connected; - applied to insects having the abdomen separated from the thorax only by a constriction.

(3):

(a.) To press together; to crowd; to straiten; to confine closely.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Coarctate'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/coarctate.html. 1828.