All 3 Uses of
constrained
in
The Odyssey, by Homer (translated by: Butcher & Lang)
- Here the company of Odysseus, constrained by hunger, devoured the sacred kine of the Sun, for which offence they were punished by a shipwreck, when all were lost save Odysseus.†
Book Intr. *constrained = restricted; or lacking spontaneity
- For goodly Odysseus hath not yet perished on the earth; but still, methinks, he lives and is kept on the wide deep in a seagirt isle, and hard men constrain him, wild folk that hold him, it may be, sore against his will.†
Book 1constrain = restrict
- And soon the wax grew warm, for that my great might constrained it, and the beam of the lord Helios, son of Hyperion.†
Book 12constrained = restricted; or lacking spontaneity
Definitions:
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(1)
(constrained) restricted or inhibited
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), constrain can mean to force someone to do something.