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Strict Calvinism. Bp. Montagu.

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• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• STRICTURED
  Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
• STRICTURE
  A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Strictness. A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. 2. A stroke; a glance;
• CALVINISM
  The theological tenets or doctrines of John Calvin (a French theologian and reformer of the 16th century) and his followers, or of the so-called calvinistic churches. Note: The distinguishing doctrines of this system, usually termed the five points
• STRICTLY
  In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
• STRICTION
  The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction , the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• CONSTRICTION
  1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
• VASOCONSTRICTOR
  Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• CONSTRICT
  To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.
• ADSTRICT
  See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• PRESTRICTION
  Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. Milton.
• ASTRICTORY
  Astrictive.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.
• CONSTRICTOR
  A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter. (more info) 1. That which constricts, draws together, or contracts.
• OBSTRICTION
  The state of being constrained, bound, or obliged; that which constrains or obliges; obligation; bond. Milton.