strict (strikt)

[= F. strict (OF. streit, etc.), The lustful god, with speedy pace, Just thought to strain her in a strict embrace. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., i. 976. 2. Tense; stiff: as, a strict or lax fiber.-3. Narrow; restricted; confined; strait. [Obsolete or archaic.] IMG:content-2273.png:[blocks in formation] There never was a more strict friendship than between those Gentlemen. Steele , in A. Dobson's Selections from Steele, Int., p. xl. 5. Absolute; unbroken: as, strict silence. - 6. Exact; accurate; careful; rigorously nice: as, words taken in their strictest sense; a strict command. I wish I had not look'd With such strict eyes into her follies. Beau . and Fl ., Thierry and Theodoret, i. 2. And fall into deception unaware, Not keeping strictest watch. Milton , P. L., ix. 363. 7. Exacting; rigorous; severe; rigid: as, strict in keeping the Sabbath; a strict disciplinarian. Within these ten days take a monastery, A most strict house. Beau . and Fl . , Thierry and Theodoret, i. 1. Not over-ruled by fate Inextricable, or strict nece ity. Strict statutes and most biting laws. 5990 Cock's, Syme's, and Wheelhouse's operations for stricture. See operation. Resilient, spasmodic, etc., stricture. See the adjectives. (See also bridle - stricture.) of stride. strictured (strik' turd), a. [ stricture + -ed2.] Affected with stricture: as, a strictured duct. strid. A preterit (obsolete) and past participle striddle (strid'l), v.; pret. and pp. striddled , ppr. striddling . [Freq. of stride. Cf. straddle.] To straddle. [Prov. Eng.] stride (strīd), v .; pret.strode (formerly also strid ), pp. stridden or strid , ppr. striding . [ pret.strode , strood , strade ), strīdan (pret. strād , pp. striden ), stride, = MD. striden , D.strij- den = MLG. striden (pret. streed ), stride, strive, =OHG. stritan, MHG. strīten , G. streiten = Dan. stride , strive, contend; also in weak form, OS. strithian = OFries. strida = Icel. stridha = Sw. strida , strive; orig. appar. contend, hence, in a particular use, go hastily, take long steps. Hence the comp. bestride and freq. striddle , also straddle , bestraddle ; and, through OF., strive and strife .] I. in trans. 1. To walk with long steps; step. There was no Greke so grym, ne of so gret wille, Durst abate on tho buernes, ne to bonke stride ; Ne afforse hym with fight to ferke out of ship. strict stem of some corals.-10. In bot., close or narrow and upright: opposed to lax: said of a stem or an inflorescence.-11. In music, regular; exactly according to rule; without libhaties: sesandtristrict canon constructionist, fugue.- coutrict A point, cro -examination. See the nouns.-Strict creditor's bill. See creditor's action, under creditor. Strict foreclosure, fugue, sense, etc. See the nouns. Strict imitation. See imitation, 3.- Strict settlement, in law, a device in English conveyancing by which the title to landed estates is preserved in the family by conveying it in such manner that the father holds an estate for life and the eldest son a contingent or expectant estate in remainder, with interests also in other members of the family, so that usually only by the concurrence of father and son, and often of trustees also, can complete alienation be made. = Syn. 6. Close, scrupulous, critical. -7. Severe, Rigorous, etc. See austere.