[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

strict \strict\, a. compar. stricter; superl. strictest.
   l. strictus, p. p. of stringere to draw or bind tight, to
   strain. see strain, and cf. strait, a.
   1. strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a
      strict ligature. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
      1913 webster

   3. exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep
      strict watch; to pay strict attention. --shak.
      1913 webster

            it shall be still in strictest measure. --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact
      rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the
      sabbath. "through the strict senteries." --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined;
      restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
      1913 webster

   6. bot. upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the
      shape of the plants or their flower clusters.
      1913 webster

   syn: exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe.

   usage: 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.
          1913 webster

                and rules as strict his labored work confine,
                as if the stagirite o'erlooked each line.
                                                  --pope.
          1913 webster

                soon moved with touch of blame, thus eve: 
                "what words have passed thy lips, adam severe"
                                                  --milton.
          1913 webster

   the strict observance, or friars of the strict
   observance. r. c. ch. see observance.
      1913 webster
see also:
stricter strictest strain strait strict severe 
the strict observance friars of the strict observance observance 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

strict
     adj 1: of rules stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules" syn:
             hard-and-fast
     2: rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard;
        "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"
        syn: rigorous
     3: incapable of compromise or flexibility syn: rigid
     4: not indulgent; "strict parents" syn: nonindulgent
     5: unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a
        parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- h.g.wells; "a
        hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict
        disciplinarian"; "a spartan upbringing" syn: severe, spartan
     6: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting
        instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
        syn: stern, exacting
see also:
hard-and-fast rigorous rigid nonindulgent severe spartan 
stern exacting 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

165 moby thesaurus words for "strict":
   sabbatarian, spartan, spartanic, absolute, absolutist,
   absolutistic, accurate, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant,
   aspersion, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian,
   authoritative, autocratic, bigoted, bossy, careful, censorious,
   choicy, choosy, circumscription, close, cold-blooded, complete,
   compulsive, confining, conscientious, constant, constrictive,
   correct, cramp, creedbound, critical, defined, delicate, demanding,
   despotic, detailed, dictatorial, direct, discriminating,
   discriminative, dogmatic, domineering, dour, draconian,
   evangelical, even, exact, exacting, exigent, express, exquisite,
   faithful, fastidious, feudal, fine, finical, finicking, finicky,
   firm, forbidding, fundamentalist, fussy, grim, grinding, hard,
   hard-boiled, harsh, hidebound, high-handed, hyperorthodox,
   imperative, imperial, imperious, inerrable, inerrant, infallible,
   inflexible, ironhanded, just, limitation, literalist, literalistic,
   lordly, magisterial, magistral, masterful, mathematical,
   meticulous, micrometrically precise, microscopic, minute,
   monocratic, narrow, nice, obloquy, oppressive, overbearing,
   overconscientious, overruling, overscrupulous, particular,
   peremptory, perfectionistic, picky, pinpoint, pitiless, precise,
   precisianist, precisianistic, precisionistic, priggish, prudish,
   punctilious, punctual, purist, puristic, puritanic, puritanical,
   refined, reflection, religious, religiously exact, repressive,
   right, rigid, rigorist, rigorous, rugged, ruthless, scientific,
   scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing, selective,
   sensitive, severe, slam, slur, square, staunch, stern, stint,
   straitlaced, stricture, stringent, subtle, suppressive,
   tender-conscienced, thorough, tough, tyrannical, tyrannous,
   uncompromising, undeviating, undistorted, unerring, unsparing,
   unsympathetic, veracious, veridical

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

strict
     
        a function f is strict in an argument if
     
        	f bottom = bottom
     
        see bottom.  in other words, the result depends on the
        argument so evaluation of an application of the function
        cannot terminate until evaluation of the argument has
        terminated.
     
        if the result is only bottom when the argument is bottom
        then the function is also bottom-unique.
     
        see also strict evaluation, hyperstrict.
     
        1995-01-25
     
     
see also:
bottom bottom-unique strict evaluation hyperstrict 

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