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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hidebound
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ hidebound bureaucrats
▪ It was predictable that the medical establishment, so hidebound and reactionary, would reject Dr Stone's ideas.
▪ The hidebound attitudes of Russia's powerful aristocracy made any kind of progress impossible.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Football is often hidebound by facts.
▪ It provides the leaders of an organization with a convenient rationale for their hidebound maintenance-oriented policies.
▪ Life was not hidebound by rules or convention.
▪ The composers now working there have brought no preconceptions or hidebound conventions.
▪ Their class system was hidebound, their rulers unjustifiably smug, their attitude to rising talent blinkered.
▪ There are a lot of missing links between design and product development because of manufacturing's hidebound attitude.
▪ They succeeded for a time-but at a cost for the hidebound Congress.
▪ Whether the conservative, hidebound publishing establishment will treat such works with the seriousness they deserve is of course another matter.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hidebound

Hidebound \Hide"bound`\, a.

  1. Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; -- said of an animal.

  2. (Hort.) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth; -- said of trees.
    --Bacon.

  3. Untractable; bigoted; obstinately and blindly or stupidly conservative.
    --Milton. Carlyle.

  4. Niggardly; penurious. [Obs.]
    --Quarles.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hidebound

1550s, from hide (n.1) + past tense of bind (v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded c.1600.

Wiktionary
hidebound

a. 1 bound with the hide of an animal. 2 (context of a domestic animal English) Having the skin adhere so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated. 3 (context of trees English) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth. 4 (context of a person English) stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible. 5 (context obsolete English) niggardly; penurious; stingy.

WordNet
hidebound

adj. stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded [syn: traditionalist]

Wikipedia
Hidebound

Hidebound (Icelandic: Þröng Sýn) is a 2005 animated film that tells of Aron, a young man who is concerned about communications and the human situation in today’s society. He decides to conduct an experiment and observes the reactions of other people to it. Through this unique experiment or observations we meet several characters that each tells us a different story about how people respond to a new experience and how they behave under pressure.

The way Hidebound is made reflects exactly this experimental way. The film was first shot on DV where after editing, the frames were printed out. During fairs and festivals in Reykjavík, Iceland, members of the general public where offered to help in making of the film by tracing their own style the people from these print-outs. Over 1.350 people contributed with well over 16.000 traces and drawings that were scanned and used in the animation of the film. Backgrounds and other animation were created by a team of young artists in Reykjavík, led by the directors and creators of this project, Guðmundur Arnar and Þórgnýr Thoroddsen. Hidebound is their first animated film.

Usage examples of "hidebound".

I was informed by that hidebound body politic that I may apply again next term for readmittance in the fall, which may or may not be granted.

And for all he may have strayed from the hidebound preachments of his forebears, Adams remained enough of a Puritan to believe anything worthy must carry a measure of pain.

In justifying his sudden decision to Janoah Eldridge, Willie had merely explained that he had hired Celestina because she was so comfortable to have around, a recommendation at which Wilton would have jeered but which, perhaps, in the eyes of the Lord was quite as praiseworthy as that which her more hidebound but less accommodating sisters could have boasted.

So, instead of prescribing careful concoctions of mercury and antimony, we rebalanced humors like the most hidebound of Galenists, and consulted the stars with a fervor worthy of Paracelsus himself.

Creative misfits of all kinds slipped into the eighty approved artistic modes, including several that were sanctioned to satirize the hidebound and shake up the stodgy.

That optimistic baby had come on so like the private eye in any long-ago radio drama, believing all you needed was grit, resourcefulness, exemption from hidebound cops' rules, to solve any great mystery.

DeMob gave me a reasonably secure cover identity as a playboy remittance man from a primogeniture polity, sent to while away his youth in less hidebound (and politically loaded) biomes, and it’.