- A formal agreement to cut down size - Become smaller or narrower - Binding agreement - formal legal promise - To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass;
to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action. - To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit. - To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a
habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- Agreement to do or refrain from doing some act - Binding agreement - Formal agreement - A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or
one of the stipulations in such an agreement. - An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and
by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in
Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the
"Solemn League and Covenant." - The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures,
conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience,
repentance, faith, etc. - A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain
its faith, discipline, etc.