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Strict   /strɪkt/   Listen
adjective
Strict  adj.  (compar. stricter; superl. strictest)  
1.
Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
2.
Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
3.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. "It shall be still in strictest measure."
4.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict senteries."
5.
Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
6.
(Bot.) Upright, or straight and narrow; said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
Synonyms: Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts to a principle or code by which he is bound; severe is strict with an implication often, but not always, of harshness. Strict is opposed to lax; severe is opposed to gentle. "And rules as strict his labored work confine, As if the Stagirite o'erlooked each line." "Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: - "What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe!""
The Strict Observance, or Friars of the Strict Observance. (R. C. Ch.) See Observance.





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"Strict" Quotes from Famous Books



... the other, a great big burly fellow, coming forward to meet them, "but orders are strict. No one going in at all, unless ...
— The Boy With the U.S. Census • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... man demands our close attention— The Maximus Apollo of strict non-intervention— With pitiless severity, though decorous and calm his tone, Thus spake the "old man eloquent," the ...
— War Poetry of the South • Various
... affirm that in other planets there can be no colours but what we see, no sensations but what we feel, no mental powers but what we possess, the inference would be precarious enough. The Anthropomorphist in the strict sense—the man who thinks that God or the gods must have human bodies—no doubt renders himself liable to the gibe that, if oxen could think, they would imagine the gods to be like oxen, and so on. But the cases are not parallel. We have no difficulty in thinking that in other worlds there ...
— Philosophy and Religion - Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge • Hastings Rashdall
... penalties were reserved. Warbeck was compelled publicly to read at Exeter and later in London a confession of the true story of his own origin and that of the conspiracy; and was then relegated to not very strict confinement under surveillance. His supporters were allowed to purchase their pardon by heavy fines, which satisfactorily aided in the replenishment of ...
— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes
... an example in the death of Mr. P.; commenced practice at the close of the revolution under the most favourable auspices; multiplication of his papers; condensation a peculiar trait in his mind; never solicited a favour from an opponent; a strict practitioner; character of his mind; manner of speaking; accorded to General Hamilton eloquence; an incident in relation to Hamilton and Burr in the cause of Le Guen vs. Gouverneur and Kemble; letter from John Van ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis


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