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adjective

Lax adj. (compar. laxer; superl. laxest)

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. "The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy."

Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. "The discipline was lax." "Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions." "The word "aeternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification."

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

Synonyms: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.

noun

Lax n. A looseness; diarrhea.

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Etymology of 'Lax'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lax" Quotes from Famous Books

... notorious fact that the public land laws have been deflected from their beneficent original purpose of home-making by lax administration, short-sighted departmental decisions, and the growth of an unhealthy public sentiment in portions of the West. Great areas of the public domain have passed into the hands, not of the home-maker, ...

— The Fight For Conservation • Gifford Pinchot

... the same metre, would have been incompatible with a faithful adherence to the sense of the German, from the comparative poverty of our language in rhymes; and it would have been unadvisable, from the incongruity of those lax verses with the present state of the English public. Schiller's intention seems to have been merely to have prepared his reader for the tragedies, by a lively picture of the laxity of discipline, and the mutinous disposition of Wallenstein's soldiery. It is not necessary as a preliminary explanation. ...

— The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838 • James Gillman

... Lord Liverpool came first. With this, he was a simple and devout Catholic; loved on his holiday to serve the mass of some poor priest in a mountain valley; and had more than once been known to carry off some lax Catholic junior on his circuit to the performance of his Easter duties, willy-nilly—by a mixture of magnetism and authority. For all games of chance he had a perfect passion; would play whist all night, and conduct a case magnificently all day. And although he was ...

— The Testing of Diana Mallory • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the whole nation. Foremost among these was Mr. John Wilkes, member for Aylesbury, a man of broken fortunes and still more damaged character, but of a wit and hardihood that made his society acceptable to some of high rank and lax morality, and caused his political alliance to be courted by some who desired to be regarded as leaders of a party; many of the transactions of the late reign having, unfortunately, not been favorable to the maintenance of any high standard ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... had fallen a little forward, his eyes were closed, his fingers had fallen lax about his knees, when a sudden cry called him to his feet. It was a strange sound, thin and brief; it fell dead, and silence returned as though it had never been interrupted. He had not recognised the Doctor's voice; but, as there was no one else ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

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