Strict
Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
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Strict Quotations
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
Clint Eastwood
If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict therein at the bar or in the church.
Isaac Barrow
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli
Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.
Gottfried Leibniz
Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.
Michel de Montaigne
I grew up before there were strict leash laws.
Beverly Cleary
I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
Sandra Bullock
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.
Lord Chesterfield
Strict Translations
strict in Dutch is duchtig, straf, bar, hard, streng
strict in Finnish is ankara
strict in German is streng
strict in Hungarian is szoros, szabatos
strict in Italian is severo
strict in Latin is austerus, intentus, districtus (f. distringo)
strict in Portuguese is estrito
strict in Spanish is estricto
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