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Definition of Strict

1. Adjective. Rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard. "A strict vegetarian"

2. Adjective. (of rules) stringently enforced. "Hard-and-fast rules"

3. Adjective. Characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint.

4. Adjective. Incapable of compromise or flexibility.

5. Adjective. Severe and unremitting in making demands. "Strict standards"

Definition of Strict

1. a. Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.

Definition of Strict

1. Adjective. Strained; drawn close; tight. ¹

2. Adjective. Tense; not relaxed. ¹

3. Adjective. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice. ¹

4. Adjective. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous. ¹

5. Adjective. Rigidly interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted. ¹

6. Adjective. (botany) Upright, or straight and narrow; — said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. ¹

7. Adjective. Severe in discipline. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Strict

1. kept within narrow and specific limits [adj STRICTER, STRICTEST] : STRICTLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Strict

strich striches strick stricken stricken through strickenly strickenness strickenthrough strickle strickled

strickles strickling strickly stricks strict (current term) strict-sense stationary strict implication strict implications strict vegetarian stricter

strictest striction strictions strictly strictly better strictly decreasing function strictly decreasing functions strictly increasing function

Literary usage of Strict

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle, Frank Hesketh Peters (1886)
"So much, then, for the question whether the i and in the we strict incontinent man knows or not, and in what sense it ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1908)
"It was not until some considerable time after the invention of printing that the laws of strict Counterpoint were given to the world in the form of a ..."

3. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1891)
"So much, then, for the question whether the i and in the \ the strict I incontinent man knows or not, and in what sense it ..."

4. Concise Precedents in Conveyancing: With Practical Notes and with by Madgwick George Davidson, Samuel Wadsworth, Charles Davidson (1899)
"_ Devise in strict I DEVISE all my real estate (1>) (except what I otherwise tin; testator's dispose Of DV this 111V Will) TO THE USE OI Illy SOU, UK, ..."

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