Crossword-Solution: STRICT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Strict | a. | Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature. |
| Strict | a. | Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber. |
| Strict | a. | Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention. |
| Strict | a. | Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath. |
| Strict | a. | Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense. |
| Strict | a. | Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with STRICT (5)
While the strict legal right may exist in the government to enforce the exercise of these offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and so nearly impracticable withal, that I deem it better to forego for the time the uses of such offices.
The most haunting time at which to see them is at the turn of the moon, when they utter strange wailing cries; but the lagoon is dangerous for mortals then, and until the evening of which we have now to tell, Wendy had never seen the lagoon by moonlight, less from fear, for of course Peter would have accompanied her, than because she had strict rules about every one being in bed by seven.
Hell heard th’ unsufferable noise, Hell saw Heav’n ruining from Heav’n and would have fled Affrighted; but strict Fate had cast too deep Her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
State control of economic affairs is unusually tight even for a Communist country because of the small size and homogeneity of the society and the strict one-man rule of Kim.
Quotes with STRICT (3)
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.
brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.
I don't tell you this story today in order to encourage all of you in the class of '04 to find careers in the music business, but rather to suggest what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is, trying to ensure that you don't wake up at 32 or 35 or 40 tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren't paying strict attention, either because the money was good, or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitu…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 85 times in crossword archives (1963–2025).