Definition of Contracted

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Definition of Contracted
	Contracted of Contract Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Related Definitions: As, Bargained, Betrothed, Brow, Contract, Contracted, Drawn, For, Illiberal, Mind, Narrow, Noun, Of, Peace, Selfish, Shrunken, Together, Wrinkled

Contracted Quotations

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Jonathan Swift

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.
Joseph Addison

Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.
Roger Waters

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which art reproduces, and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.
Henri Bergson

I pitched a storyline, and as far as I know it's been picked up. It's for the third and final episode I'm contracted to do. But I can't give any spoilers.
Corin Nemec

Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government.
Robert Toombs

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.
Jim Sullivan

Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it.
Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Contracted Translations

contracted in German is zusammengezogen, Vertrag geschlossen
contracted in Latin is substrictus

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