Strict
[strɪkt]
Definition
(a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
(a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
(a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
(a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
(a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
(a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Typist: Lycurgus
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Tight, strained.[2]. Exact, accurate, precise, very nice.[3]. Severe, rigorous, stringent, stern, austere, harsh, uncompromising, strait-laced.
Typed by Elinor
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Close, exact, accurate, rigorous, severe, stringent, nice, precise
ANT:Loose, inexact, inaccurate, lenient, mild, indulgent, lax
Typist: Preston
Definition
adj. exact: extremely nice: observing exact rules regular: severe: restricted taken strictly: thoroughly accurate: tense stiff: closely intimate: absolute unbroken: constricted.—n. Stric′tion.—adv. Strict′ly narrowly closely rigorously exclusively.—ns. Strict′ness; Strict′ure (surg.) an unnatural contraction either congenital or acquired of a mucous canal such as the urethra œsophagus or intestine: an unfavourable criticism: censure: critical remark.
Editor: Warren
Examples
- I have told your ladyship that I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation if any complaint was made, and all is in strict confidence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In strict confidence? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She was always grave and strict. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At these tables the _élite_ of the company were to be entertained, strict rules of equality not being more in fashion at Briarfield than elsewhere. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Inquiries were set on foot, and strict searches made. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It had been left in his charge in the morning, with a strict injunction that it should not be delivered until night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There has never been the least departure from the strict line of fact. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With my strict English ideas as to the class of clothes to be worn by a prominent man, there was nothing in Edison's dress to impress me. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Haven't you been a little strict with Mr Rokesmith to-night? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In everything else the etiquette of the day might stand the strictest investigation. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She lives in the strictest retirement at Versailles. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Such expenses as the dignity of his station required he readily sustained, limiting them by the strictest rules of propriety. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- In the strictest of all senses, he said. Plato. The Republic.
- I felt myself, she added, to be as solemnly engaged to him, as if the strictest legal covenant had bound us to each other. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- I knew Mrs. Joe's housekeeping to be of the strictest kind, and that my larcenous researches might find nothing available in the safe. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I only got mine (imparted in the strictest secrecy) five minutes since. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- He wanted to revert to the strictest Toryism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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