Stricture /(?)/

Stric·ture

Stricture

n.
  1. Strictness. [Obs.]
    A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
  2. A stroke; a glance; a touch. [Obs.]
  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.
  4. A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. (Med.)