Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a strait manner.
  • Tightly; tight.
  • Strictly; rigorously.
  • Closely; intimately.
  • Hardly; grievously; sorely.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.
  • adverb obsolete Closely; intimately.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb Strictly.
  • adverb obsolete Closely; intimately.

Etymologies

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From strait +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • He raised the coverlet and drawing near her, considered her straitly, and behold, it was the lutanist whom he desired and of whom he was come in quest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Then the Kazi fell to looking on her and considering her straitly, till she asked him why he looked so hard and he said, “I had a wife and were she not dead, I had said thou art she.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The broker rejoiced at this and brought her up to Nur al-Din, and she considered him straitly and found him like the full moon, perfect in loveliness and a model of fine stature and symmetric grace, even as saith of him one of his describers.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • So he saluted her and she returned his salam with sweetest speech; and, when he considered her more straitly, his reason was dazed and his heart amazed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • With this the Chamberlain considered him straitly and knowing him right well, threw himself at his feet; which when the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • A long and subtle speech thou'lt need to prove to me thou didst not slay thy friends because thou didst covet the horses, and to gain them didst murder thine own allies, after bidding them come so straitly.

    Rhesus 2008

  • A long and subtle speech thou'lt need to prove to me thou didst not slay thy friends because thou didst covet the horses, and to gain them didst murder thine own allies, after bidding them come so straitly.

    Rhesus 2008

  • “Spare me not,” he said to Christie; for even that ruffian hesitated to draw the cord straitly.

    The Monastery 2008

  • And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat. —

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • So he straitly considered that same Rais, and behold, it was the Princess

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

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