3. Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch;
to pay strict attention. Shak.
It shall be still in strictest measure.
Milton.
4. Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe;
rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. "Through the strict
senteries." Milton.
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.
Syn. -- 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.
Pope.
Soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve: - "What words have passed
thy lips, Adam severe!"
Milton.
The Strict Observance, or Friars of the Strict Observance. (R. C. Ch.)
See Observance.
Stric"tion (?), n. [L. strictio. See Stringent.] The act of
constricting, or the state of being constricted.
Line of striction (Geom.), the line on a skew surface that cuts each
generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding
generator.
Strict"ly, adv. In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
Strict"ness, n. Quality or state of being strict.
Stric"ture (?), n. [L. strictura a contraction, from stringere,
strictum, to draw tight: cf. F. stricture. See Strict.] 1. Strictness.
[Obs.]
A man of stricture and firm abstinence.
Shak.