strang

[STRONG.] ( Scotch.) strange, *straunge, a . & adv . [O. Fr. estrange (Fr. étrange), from Lat. extraneus foreign, from extra =without, outside; Spanish extra no ; Italian estranio, estraneo.] [EXTRA.] IMG:content-0391.png:[blocks in formation] "Where wast thou born, So sic rates, and where, In what strange country can thy parents live?" Cowper: On Female Inconstancy. 3. Not one's own; not pertaining to one's self or one's belongings; belonging to another or others. "Some such strange bull leaped your father's cow." Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , v. 4. 4. New; unused before; not before seen, heard, or known; unknown. "The signet is not strange to you." Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iv. 2. 5. Wonderful; causing wonder or surprise; exciting curiosity; extraordinary, remarkable, unusual, singular. "'Tis strange but true: for truth is always strange Stranger than fiction." Byron: Don Juan, xiv. 101. 6. Odd, unusual, singular; not according to the ordinary way. "Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard." Shakesp.: As You Like It , ii. 7. 7. Distrustful, reserved, estranged. "Why do you look so strange upon your wife?" Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well, v. 3. 8. Unacquainted; not knowing. "Joseph Genesis xlii. 7. made himself strange unto them." IMG:content-0392.png:[blocks in formation] strānge'-lý, *straunge-lie, adv . [Eng. strange, adj.;-ly. *1. As belonging to some one else; in a foreign place; at or to a distance. "As by strange fortune It came to us, I do in justice charge thee That thou commend it strangely to some place Where chance may nurse or end it." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, ii. 3. 2. In a distant or reserved manner, as one who does not know another. "They pa by strangely." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , iii. 3. 3. In a strange, odd, remarkable, or singular manner; in a manner to excite surprise or wonder; wonderfully, unusually, remarkably. "Men who had never before had a scruple had on a sudden become strangely scrupulous." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. vi.