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Straitest
(gcide) | Strait \Strait\, a. [Compar. Straiter; superl. Straitest.]
[OE. straight, streyt, streit, OF. estreit, estroit, F.
['e]troit, from L. strictus drawn together, close, tight, p.
p. of stringere to draw tight. See 2nd Strait, and cf.
Strict.]
1. Narrow; not broad.
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Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which
leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
--Matt. vii.
14.
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Too strait and low our cottage doors. --Emerson.
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2. Tight; close; closely fitting. --Shak.
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3. Close; intimate; near; familiar. [Obs.] "A strait degree
of favor." --Sir P. Sidney.
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4. Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.
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Some certain edicts and some strait decrees. --Shak.
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The straitest sect of our religion. --Acts xxvi. 5
(Rev. Ver.).
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5. Difficult; distressful; straited.
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To make your strait circumstances yet straiter.
--Secker.
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6. Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. [Obs.]
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I beg cold comfort, and you are so strait,
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. --Shak.
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