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Restrict

verb

(past & past part. restricted; pres. part. restricting)

Place restrictions on. Synonyms: curb, curtail, cut back.

Place under restrictions; limit access to.

Place limits on (extent or access). Synonyms: bound, confine, limit, restrain, throttle, trammel. "Limit the time you can spend with your friends"

Make more specific. Synonym: qualify.

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... between the Senate and the Executive which arose in the time of Andrew Johnson, when Congress undertook to hamper and restrict the President's Constitutional power of removal from office, without which his Constitutional duty of seeing that the laws are faithfully executed cannot be performed, has been settled by a return to the ancient principle ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... heavy duty on the popular drink, branvin. It established a sort of threefold control over the issue of new licenses for the sale of spirits, under which the communal committee, the commune and the governor of a province have power to restrict or lessen the number of such licenses, while each seller of spirits was required to pay to the local rates a tax on the amount of spirits sold. The licenses were issued for periods of three years, and sold by auction to the highest bidders. To such an extent has the sale of spirits been ...

— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various

... so varied in character that perhaps it is not too much to hope that every true puzzle lover will find ample material to interest—and possibly instruct. In some cases I have dealt with the methods of solution at considerable length, but at other times I have reluctantly felt obliged to restrict myself to giving the bare answers. Had the full solutions and proofs been given in the case of every puzzle, either half the problems would have had to be omitted, or the size of the book greatly increased. And the plan that I have adopted has its advantages, ...

— The Canterbury Puzzles - And Other Curious Problems • Henry Ernest Dudeney

... to restrict the number of movements, but to leave to the discretion of company commanders and the ingenuity of instructors the selection of such other exercises as accord with the object ...

— Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 - Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) • United States War Department

... their limited distribution, some being local because they have not existed long enough to admit of their wide dissemination; others, because circumstances in the animate or inanimate world have occurred to restrict the range within which they may ...

— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

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