Obs. [ad. med.L. strictōrium, f. L. strict-, stringĕre to bind: see -ORY.] A medicated compress.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc. 96. Aboue þis emplastre … putte a strictorie of white of eiren and mele of whete and lynnen cloutez y-dipped þerin.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, I. xx. (1554), 36 b. They haue strictories to make their skin to shine, wrought subtilly of gommes and of glaire.
