I.to make narrow, to straiten; only trop. and in eccl. Lat. to straiten, hamper, distress: “angustiatus prae pavore,” Vulg. Jud. 13, 29: “qui se angustiaverunt,” ib. Sap. 5, 1: “sed non angustiamur,” ib. 2 Cor. 4, 8; 6, 12; ib. Heb. 11, 37.
angustĭo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. angustus, pr.