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Straiter

Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. Straiter; superl. Straitest.] [OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F. ['e]troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p. p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf. Strict.]

  1. Narrow; not broad.

    Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
    --Matt. vii. 14.

    Too strait and low our cottage doors.
    --Emerson.

  2. Tight; close; closely fitting.
    --Shak.

  3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] ``A strait degree of favor.''
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

    Some certain edicts and some strait decrees.
    --Shak.

    The straitest sect of our religion.
    --Acts xxvi. 5 (Rev. Ver.).

  5. Difficult; distressful; straited.

    To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
    --Secker.

  6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]

    I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait, And so ingrateful, you deny me that.
    --Shak.

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straiter

a. (en-comparative of: strait)

Usage examples of "straiter".

Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself.