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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



... left, he drew his sword, and slid down the ropes; he then killed the giants, and thus saved himself from a cruel death. Jack next took a great bunch of keys from the pocket of Blunderbore, and went into the castle again. He made a strict search through all the rooms, and in them found three ladies tied up by the hair of their heads, and almost starved to death. They told him that their husbands had been killed by the giants, who had then condemned them to be starved to death, because they would not eat the ...
— The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew • Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)

... said that until the harvest was gathered there must be no honeymoon. Fairmead, as all the inhabitants of the prairie know, was only a small holding hampered by lack of capital when she married its owner and forthwith commenced to live in strict accordance with her adopted station. We hoped to improve that station, but this depended on the crops and the weather, and the heavens continued to favor us that year. Seldom had there been such grass for cattle or such a yield of wheat. ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss

... transmitted light in every case indicated the effect which was likely to be produced on them, and the photographed spectrum in each of them showed the remarkable differences that were found. The points raised by Captain Abney at different times are well worthy the study of scientific photographers, since strict attention to the modes of exposure to the spectrum, to the instruments employed, and to the source of light used can alone insure accuracy in comparative experiments.—Br. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various

... be bought cheaply, but not so cheaply as they can be made. The only expense entailed in home manufacture is that of the screw terminals for connecting the keys with the lines and buzzers. These cost only a penny each, and, if strict economy is the order of the day, can be dispensed with should the apparatus not ...
— Things To Make • Archibald Williams

... seemed utterly unnatural, if not utterly repugnant. Accustomed to swinging along the winding banks of the White Oak, or the cow-paths of the pasture lot, this moving only at a measured pace of twenty-eight inches, and one hundred and ten to the minute, and all in strict unison with the step of the guide on the marching flank or at the head of column, came ten times harder than ever did the pages of 'analytical' or ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden


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