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strict
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "narrow, drawn in, small," from Latin strictus "drawn together, close, tight," past participle of stringere (2) "to draw or bind tight" (see strain (v.)). The sense of "stringent and rigorous" (of law) is first found in 1570s; of qualities or ...
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adj. (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules" [syn: hard-and-fast ] rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian" [syn: rigorous ] incapable of compromise or flexibility [syn: ...
Usage examples of strict.
I dare not accompany you, as I am well known in the town and it might get me into trouble with the police, who are ridiculously strict in these matters.
A strict taskmaster, he would make certain the slaves behaved for her, so Norma could accomplish her goals on time.
The challenge, drawn up in strict accordance with the old military code of honor by General Beck himself, was given to General von Rundstedt, as the senior ranking Army officer, to deliver to the head of the S.
CBA television and radio network and affiliated stations, strict financial controls had been introduced, budgets pared and redundant personnel dismissed.
It certainly was not a single individual who hit on the expedient of affirming the fixed forms employed by the Churches in their solemn transactions to be apostolic in the strict sense.
She spoke of Heir Haseloff as a rather weird but occasionally comical eccentric, who, once he was through with his strict but imaginatively conducted ballet exercises, cooked up strangely human machines in his cellar workshop.
Again the smell of slow-match filled the air as the tubs were placed alongside the guns, though the men had strict orders to keep their cannon inboard, bowsed tight against the gun ports.
The Fianna were the standing army of Cormac Mac Art, legendary for their ability to fight, to live from the land, to work outside the strict brehon laws.
The strict chronology of the Diaboli had made a split-second plan possible.
This earl was a great hypocrite, a pretender to the strictest religion, an encourager of the Puritans, and founder of hospitals.
With the design of restraining the progress of Christianity, he published an edict, which, though it was designed to affect only the new converts, could not be carried into strict execution, without exposing to danger and punishment the most zealous of their teachers and missionaries.
He is a gentleman of strict conscience, disdainful of all littleness and meanness and ready on the shortest notice to die any death you may please to mention rather than give occasion for the least impeachment of his integrity.
No doubt, he being a minor, under strict control, did what he did as a mere schoolboy frolic, but this Margari and an unknown somebody else will find it not quite such a laughing matter.
Besides teaching Faraday the courtly graces, Merlion had also made sure her daughter received strict religious instruction.
Thirdly, the doctrine of a judicial metempsychosis was most profoundly rooted in the popular faith, as a strict verity, throughout the great East, ages before the time of Plato, and was familiarly known throughout Greece in his time.