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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_179826" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_179826" /> == | ||
<p> (1): (superl.) Narrow; not broad. </p> <p> (2): (a.) A variant of Straight. </p> <p> (3): (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting. </p> <p> (4): (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar. </p> <p> (5): (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. </p> <p> (6): (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited. </p> <p> (7): (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. </p> <p> (8): (adv.) Strictly; rigorously. </p> <p> (9): (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; - sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. </p> <p> (10): (a.) A narrow pass or passage. </p> <p> (11): (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; - often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. </p> <p> (12): (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus. </p> <p> (13): (v. t.) To put to difficulties. </p> | <p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' superl.) Narrow; not broad. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' a.) [[A]] variant of Straight. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting. </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean. </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' adv.) Strictly; rigorously. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' a.) Fig.: [[A]] condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; - sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' a.) [[A]] narrow pass or passage. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' a.) [[A]] (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; - often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' a.) [[A]] neck of land; an isthmus. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To put to difficulties. </p> | ||
== King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63304" /> == | == King James Dictionary <ref name="term_63304" /> == | ||
<p> | <p> [[Strait,]] a. See Straight. </p> 1. [[Narrow]] close not broad. <p> [[Strait]] is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it. Matthew 7 . </p> 2. Close intimate as a strait degree of favor. 3. [[Strict]] rigorous. <p> He now, forsooth, takes on him to reform some certain edicts, and some strait decrees. </p> 4. [[Difficult]] distressful. 5. [[Straight]] not crooked. <p> [[Strait,]] n. See Straight. </p> 1. [[A]] narrow pass or passage, either in a mountain or in the ocean, between continents or other portions of land as the straits of [[Gibraltar]] the straits of Magellan the straits of Dover. In this sense, the plural is more generally used than the singular, and often without any apparent reason or propriety. 2. [[Distress]] difficulty distressing necessity formerly written streight. Used either in the singular or plural. <p> Let no man who owns a providence, become desperate under any calamity or strait whatsoever. </p> <p> [[Ulysses]] made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. </p> <p> [[Strait,]] To put to difficulties. Not in use. </p> | ||
== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17272" /> == | == American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_17272" /> == | ||
<p> Narrow, and difficult to pass, Matthew 7:13,14 . This word should not be confounded with straight. To be "in a strait," is to have one's way beset with doubts or difficulties, to be at a loss, 1 Samuel 13:6 2 Samuel 24:14 Philippians 1:23 . </p> | <p> Narrow, and difficult to pass, Matthew 7:13,14 . This word should not be confounded with straight. To be "in a strait," is to have one's way beset with doubts or difficulties, to be at a loss, 1 Samuel 13:6 2 Samuel 24:14 Philippians 1:23 . </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54207" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_54207" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Strait]] </strong> . This Eng. word is used in [[Av]] [Note: Authorized Version.] in the literal sense of ‘narrow,’ and in the figurative sense of ‘strict’ (of which it is simply another form). Once the verb ‘strait’ occurs, Sus 22 [[‘I]] am straited on every side.’ </p> | ||
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