To gather togither: to drawe togither: to make short: to make a contract or bargaine: to plucke or shrinke in: to purchase or get. Contrahere personas ad aliquod negotium. Plin. iun. In vnum locum contrahere omnia. Cic. To gather togither. In vnum omnes contrahete. Liu. In aceruum contrahere. Plin. Crura contrahere. Ouid. To drawe in his legges. Dilatare & Contrahere, contraria. Cic. Contrahere & Dissipare, contraria. Cic. Contrahere collum. Cic. To shrinke in the necke. Contrahere se. Cic. To shrinke or gather himselfe, rounde togither. Contrahere ad colloquium. Liu. To bring togither to communication. Contrahere ad colloquium gentes seras. Plin. Contrahi incommodis amici: pro Contristari. Cic. To he fory for his sriendes hurtes. Contractum est illud eius culpa. Cic. That was committed. Ea molestissimè ferre homines debent, quæ isorum culpa contracta sunt. Cic. That were done by their fault. Contrahere, Coagulare. Plin. succus coaguli modo lac contrahir. Curneth milke to courde as renner doth. Contrahere æs alienum. Cic. To come in debt. Æruginem. Plin. To waxe rustie or cankered. Amicitiam vitus contrahir. Cic. Vertue getteth friendship. Animum contrahit musica: cui opponitur remittit. Cicer. Maketh the minde sad. Ne contrahas aut demittas animum. Cic. Haue a good hart: let not thy courage fayle thee. Animus contrahitur formidine. Lucret. Courage fayleth through feare. Qui cõtraxcrant eis cú CarthaginiÊsibus bellÛ. Liu. Which procured the warre betwene them & the Carthaginenses. Beneuolentiam persona nostra contrahere. Author ad Heren. To procure friendship by somewhat noted in our owne person. Causam mortis sibi cõtrahere. Plin. To be cause of his owne death. Certamen. Liu. To fight with: to make battayle. Cicatrices vulnerum. Plin. To heale or close vp a wound. Cladem. Liu. Si sua temeritare contractæ cladi superesset. If he had liued after the discomfiture, that by his rashenesse he procured. Culpam. Pomponius. Cic. To commit a fault. Damnum. Cic. To get harme. Frontem. Cic. To frowne: to looke sowre. Inimicitias. Quint. To get enmitie. Inuidiam. Author ad Heren. To procure hatred. Iram alicuius sibi contrahere. Ouid. To make one angrie with vs. Iter. Propert. To shorten ones iourney. Lites. Cic. To make sute and variance. Litigium inter aliquos. Plaut. To make debate and contention betweene. Malum contrahitur. Cels. Some disease is gathered. Morbum. Plin. To get a visease. Nefas. Liu. To commit some wicked act. Noxam. Col. To get some hurt: to commit some offence. Odium. Author ad Heren. To procure hatred. Offensionem. Cic. To putchase displeasure. Orationem contrahere, & Dilatare, contraria. Cic. To abbridge or shorten. Periculum. Liu. To purchase daunger. Piaculum sibi & Reipublicæ. Liu. To commit such an offence as him selfe & the cõmon weale must be purged for. Pituitam. Celsus. To engender fleume. Pœnam sibi. Cæsar. To purchase paine to him selfe. Rationem cum aliquo. Cic. To haue to doe with one. Tempus. Plin. iun. To abridge or shorten the time. Terrã contrahere dicitur Sol, cui Lætificare opponitur. Ci. Tristitia contrahitur largiore potu. Plin. Tristitiam contrahere dicitur bilis atra. Cels. Melancholye breedeth or causeth sadnesse. Aduersam valitudinem ex re aliqua contrahere. Plin. iun. By occasion of a thing to fall into a sickenesse. Vela. Cic. To strike sayle. Et per metaphoram. To drawe to an ende. Ventrem. Plin. To binde the belly. Dies medius rerum contraxit vmbras. Ouid. Midday made short shadowes. Vultum contrahere. Ouid. To looke sowerly. Contrahere res. Cic. To contract or bargaine. Contrahere cum aliquo. Cic. To make contract or bargaine with one. Quantis molestijs vacant, qui nihil animo cum populo cõtrahunt. Cic. Which haue nothing to doe with the people.

I. In gen.

A. Lit. (syn. colligo; opp. dissipo): quae in rerum naturā constarent quaeque moverentur, ea contrahere amicitiam, dissipare discordiam, Cic. Lael. 7, 24: cohortes ex finitimis regionibus, Caes. B. C. 1, 15: exercitum in unum locum, id. B. G. 1, 34; cf.: omnes copias Luceriam, Cic. Att. 8, 1, 2; and: omnia in unum locum, id. ib. 8, 11, B, 3: omnes copias eo, Nep. Ages. 3, 1: navibus circiter LXXX. coactis, contractisque, Caes. B. G. 4, 22; cf.: magnam classem, Nep. Con. 4, 4: naves, Suet. Calig. 19: agrestes, Ov. F. 4, 811: captivos, Liv. 37, 44, 3: utrumque ad colloquium, id. 28, 18, 2: undique libros, Suet. Aug. 31; cf. exemplaria, id. Gram. 24: muscas in manu, Plin. 12, 25, 54, 122; cf. serpentes, id. 28, 9, 42, 151: ii, qui in idem (collegium) contracti fuerint, Traj. ap. Plin. Ep. 10, 34 (43), 1—

B. Trop.

1. To bring about, carry into effect, accomplish, execute, get, contract, occasion, cause, produce, make, etc. (very freq.): amicitiam, Cic. Lael. 14, 48: vinculum amicitiae, Val. Max. 4, 7 init.: aliquid litigii, Plaut. Cas. 3, 2, 31; cf. lites, id. Capt. prol. 63: qui hoc mihi contraxit, id. Cas. 3, 2, 21; cf.: negotium mihi, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 9; and: numinis iram mihi (arte), Ov. M. 2, 660: bellum Saguntinis, Liv. 24, 42, 11: aliquid damni, Cic. Fin. 5, 30, 91: molestias, id. Fam. 2, 16, 5; cf. Sall. H. 2, 41, 8 Dietsch: aes alienum, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 8, 25: causam certaminis, Liv. 22, 28, 4; cf. certamen, id. 23, 26, 11; 25, 34, 10 al.: necessitates ad bellum, id. 44, 27, 12: culpam, to incur, Cic. Att. 11, 24, 1 al.: cruditatem, Quint. 7, 3, 38; cf. id. 2, 10, 6: morbum, Plin. 30, 8, 21, 65: pestilentiam, id. 36, 27, 69, 202: saginam corporis, Just. 21, 2: causam valetudinis ex profluvio alvi, Suet. Aug. 97 fin. et saep.: porca contracta, owed, due, sc. for the expiation of a crime, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57 fin.—

2. In the lang. of business, t. t., to make a contract, conclude a bargain, to contract: rationem, rem cum illo, Cic. Clu. 14, 41; cf. id. Off. 1, 17, 53; id. Sull. 20, 56; id. Att. 7, 7, 7: in tribuendo suum cuique et rerum contractarum fide, id. Off. 1, 5, 14: ex rebus contrahendis, id. ib. 3, 15, 61: in contrahendis negotiis, id. ib. 2, 11, 40: adfinitas inter Caesarem et Pompeium contracta nuptiis, Vell. 2, 44, 3 et saep.—

b. Transf. beyond the sphere of business: cum aliquo, to have intercourse with, to associate with, Cic. Off. 1, 2, 4: nihil cum populo, id. Tusc. 5, 36, 105.—

II. In partic., with the prevailing idea of shortening or diminishing by drawing together (cf.: cogo, colligo, etc.), to draw close or together, to draw in, contract, shorten, narrow, lessen, abridge, diminish (freq. and class.; opp. porrigo, dilato, tendo).

A. Lit.: animal omne membra quocumque volt flectit, contorquet, porrigit, contrahit, Cic. Div. 1, 53, 120: pulmones tum se contrahunt adspirantes, tum intrante spiritu dilatant, id. N. D. 2, 55, 136: contractum aliquo morbo bovis cor, id. Div. 2, 16, 37; cf.: se millepeda tactu, Plin. 29, 6, 39, 136: bina cornua (opp. protendere), id. 9, 32, 51, 101: collum. Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 41; opp. tendere, Quint. 11, 3, 82: frontem, to wrinkle, contract, Cic. Clu. 26, 72; Hor. S. 2, 2, 125: supercilia (opp. deducere), Quint. 11, 3, 79: medium digitum in pollicem, id. 11, 3, 92; cf.: contractum genibus tangas caput, Hor. S. 2, 7, 61: gravissimo frigore solus atque contractus vigilabit in lectulo, Hier. Ep. 53: castra, Caes. B. G. 7, 40: vela, Hor. C. 2, 10, 23; Quint. 12, prooem. 4; cf. Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2: orbem (lunae), Ov. M. 15, 198: umbras, id. ib. 3, 144: orationem (with summittere), Quint. 11, 1, 45; cf. id. 12, 11, 16: tempora dicendi, id. 6, 5, 4 et saep.: lac, to curdle, coagulate, Plin. 23, 7, 63, 117.—Of bees: contracto frigore pigrae ( = contractae frigore pigro), Verg. G. 4, 259; cf.: pigrum est enim contractumque frigus, Sen. Ira, 2, 19, 2: horrida tempestas contraxit caelum, narrows, Hor. Epod. 13, 1: vulnera, Plin. 24, 8, 33, 48; cf. cicatrices, id. 12, 17, 38, 77: ventrem, to stop, check, Cels. 4, 19; cf. alvum, id. ib.: vomitiones, Plin. 20, 2, 6, 11.—

2. Esp., archit. t. t., to narrow, make smaller or tapering: columnam, Vitr. 4, 3, 4; cf. id. 3, 3, 12; 4, 7, 2: pyramis XXIV. gradibus in metae cacumen se contrahens, Plin. 36, 5, 4, 31.—

B. Trop., to draw in, lessen, check, restrain ( = certis limitibus quasi coartare et circumscribere; opp. remittere, diffundere): cui non animus formidine divum contrahitur? Lucr. 5, 1219; cf.: te rogo, ne contrahas ac demittas animum, do not suffer your spirits to droop, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, 4; and: animos varietas sonorum (opp. remittere), id. Leg. 2, 15, 38: terram quasi tristitiā (sol; opp. laetificas), id. N. D. 2, 40, 102: ut et bonis amici quasi diffundantur et incommodis contrahantur, are made sad, id. Lael. 13, 48 (cf. id. Tusc. 4, 6, 14): ex quibus intellegitur, appetitus omnes contrahendos sedandosque, id. Off. 1, 29, 103; cf. cupidmem, Hor. C. 3, 16, 39 et saep. —Hence, contractus, a, um, P. a. (acc. to II.), drawn together into a narrow space, i. e. compressed, contracted, close, short, narrow, abridged, restricted, limited, etc.

A. Lit.: tanto contractioribus ultimis digitis, Quint. 11, 3, 95: nares contractiores habent introitus, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 145: contractior ignis, smaller, Lucr. 5, 569: aequora, Hor. C. 3, 1, 33; cf. freta, Ov. F. 6, 495: locus (with exiguus), Verg. G. 4, 295: Nilus contractior et exilior, Plin. Pan. 30, 3: contractiora spatia ordinum, Col. 5, 5, 3.—

B. Trop.

1. Of language, etc.: et brevis ambitus verborum, Cic. Brut. 44, 162; cf.: contractior oratio, id. ib. 31, 120: propositum dicendi (opp. uberius), Quint. 11, 1, 32: summissā atque contractā voce (opp. erectā et concitatā), id. 11, 3, 175; so, vox, id. 11, 3, 64: parvum opusculum lucubratum his jam contractioribus noctibus, Cic. Par. prooem. 5.—

2. In gen.: quae studia in his jam aetatibus nostris contractiora esse debent, Cic. Cael. 31, 76: paupertas, stinted, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 20 (cf.: angusta pauperies, id. C. 3, 2, 1); in the same sense transf. to the person: ad mare descendet vates tuus et sibi parcet Contractusque leget, retired, solitary, id. ib. 1, 7, 12; cf. homo, Verg. M. 78.— Adv.: contractē, on a contracted scale; only in comp.: assuescamus. servis paucioribus serviri, habitare contractius, Sen. Tranq. 9, 3; Lact. 2, 8, 39 al.