To draw together; narrow; limit; shorten; condense.
To take; become affected with, as a disease.
To shrink.
To make a contract.
A formal agreement, or the writing containing it.
In the marriage contract a clause was inserted to the effect that should Anne survive Charles, without children, she could only remarry with his successor. – The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Eleanor E. Tremayne