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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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... so many long-cultivated plants, extremely sterile. As I felt doubtful about the specific name I sent specimens to Kew, and was assured that the species was Origanum vulgare. My plants formed one great clump, and had evidently spread from a single root by stolons. In a strict sense, therefore, they all belonged to the same individual. My object in experimenting on them was, firstly, to ascertain whether crossing flowers borne by plants having distinct roots, but all derived asexually from the same individual, would be in any respect ...

— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin

... do all she can to press us to stay? Besides, were we to have our house got ready in a scramble, won't it make people think it strange? I however know your idea very well that were we kept to stay at your uncle's and aunt's, you won't escape being under strict restraint, unlike what would be the case were we to live in our own house, as you would be free then to act as you please! Such being the case, go, on your own account, and choose some place to take up your quarters in, while I myself, who have been separated from your aunt and cousins ...

— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin

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