strait-lacedadj.

Brit.

/ˌstreɪtˈleɪst/, U.S.

/ˈstreɪtˈˌleɪst/

Etymology: < strait adv. + laced adj.¹

†1.

a. Wearing stays or bodice tightly laced. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear > wearing corset

under lacea1450

strait-laceda1630

corseted1871

a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. v. 485 The [Irish] wemen generally are not straight laced, perhapps for feare to hurt the sweetenes of breath, and the greatest part are not laced at all.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. No Maid here's handsome thought, unless she can With her short Palms her streight-lac't body span.

1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11 We should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 394 A Plump Lass being in more esteem than our Slender and Strait-laced Maidens.

in extended use.1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ix. xlvii. 141 The strait-lac'd Insects slender Brood did ne'r Shrink up themselves into a scanter Dresse.

b. Of a bodice, etc.: Tightly laced. rare.Cf. quot. c1430, where strait laced is not a compound, but two words.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [adjective] > bodice

strait-laced1855

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 201 Hire crowpe doth the semys shrede, Whan they so streyght lasyd been.]

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 148 It was never, he [Child] declared with much spirit, found politic to put trade into straitlaced bodices.

2. figurative.

†a. Of things: Narrow in range or scope.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective]

narroweOE

restraint1445

modifiedc1485

limitate1541

restricteda1550

strait-laced1549

scant1556

circumcised1561

contract1561

restrained1578

determinate1586

limited1590

restrict1597

strict1597

confined1605

determineda1616

limitary1620

prescript1645

modificated1646

circumscribed1647

conscribed1654

limitated1654

reserved1654

coarctated1655

straiteneda1665

unabsolute1694

stinted1710

bounded1711

contracted1711

cramped1741

special1815

municipal1856

fine-cut1894

stingy1927

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. ii. f. vi Lest Christian loue shoulde appeare to be but a straite laced loue.

1579 G. Harvey Two Other Lett. (1580) 64 He might haue spared..that same restrictiue, & streightlaced terme, Precisely.

1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vi. 4–9. 272 But this exposition is too straite laced, and attaineth not to the verie meaning of Moses.

1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xi. 41 Natural Causes are not so straight-lac'd.

†b. Of persons: Shut up within oneself, uncommunicative, morose, unsympathetic. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]

unspeakinga1382

speechless1390

mutec1400

dumb1406

silenta1425

peaceablec1425

secretc1440

of few wordsa1500

tongue-tied1529

mum1532

closec1540

strait-laced1546

tongue-dumb1556

incommunicable1568

sparing1568

inconversable1577

retentive1599

wordless1604

mumbudget1622

uncommunicable1628

monastica1631

word-bound1644

on (also upon) the reserve1655

strait-mouthed1664

oyster-like1665

incommunicative1670

mumchance1681

speechless1726

taciturnous1727

tongue-tacked1727

monosyllabic1735

silentish1737

untalkative1739

silentious1749

buttoned-up1767

taciturn1771

close as wax1772

untittletattling1779

reticent1825

voiceless1827

say-nothing1838

unremonstrant1841

still1855

unvocal1858

inexpansive186.

short-tongued1864

non-communicating1865

tight-lipped1876

unworded1886

chup1896

tongue-bound1906

shut-mouthed1936

zip-lipped1943

shtum1958

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective]

unkinda1393

uncharitablec1485

incharitable1496

strait-laced1546

ingenerous1635

lean-souled1639

ungenerous1641

mean1665

straitened1712

strait1760

strait-hearted1760

little1766

unmagnanimous1788

narrowing1827

shoddy1918

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div^v He is so hye in thynstep, and so streight laste, That pryde and couetise withdrawth al repaste.

1549 J. Olde in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. Prol. sig. .iiii Whan were maisters more vnlouyng or strayterlaced to their seruauntes?

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxvii. 10) i. f. 102 All mortal men who are of nature nigardly & streitlaced [L. qui natura maligni sunt ac restricti].

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 12 Commonly if they be adorned with beautie, they be so straight laced, and made so high in the insteppe, that they disdaine them most that most desyre them.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 297 Is it then possible for a Man seriously and constantly to contemplate the..Goodness of God, and..to be selfish and strait-laced, niggardly and covetous?

†c. Obstinate, indisposed to yield; grudging in gifts or concessions. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible

ironOE

stour1303

strange1338

unmovablea1382

inflexible1398

stoutc1410

unpliablea1425

intreatable1509

stiff1526

stiff-necked1526

unpliant1547

stout-hearted1552

inexorable1553

obstinate1559

strait-laced1560

impersuasible1576

unflexiblea1586

hard-edged1589

adamantive1594

unyielding1594

adder-deaf1597

steeled1600

irrefragable1601

rigid1606

unpersuadable1607

imployable1613

unswayablea1616

uncompellable1623

inflexive?1624

over-rigid1632

unlimbera1639

seta1640

incomplying1640

uncomplying1643

stiff-girt1659

impersuadable1680

unbendinga1688

impracticable1713

unblendable1716

stiff-rumped1728

unconvinciblea1747

uncompounding1782

unplastic1787

unbending1796

adamant1816

uneasy1819

uncompromising1828

cast iron1829

hard-hitting1831

rigoristic1844

ramrod1850

pincé1858

anchylosed1860

unbendable1884

tape-bound1900

tape-tied1900

hard line1903

tough1905

absolutist1907

hard-arsed1942

go-for-broke1946

hardcore1951

hard-arse1966

hard-ass1967

hardball1974

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxij^v He requested them, that they woulde not be ouer streight lased, but to graunt to so muche as they myght with a saufe conscience.

1579–80 T. North tr. Galba in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1113 Titus Iunius..onely made the Emperour straight laced to all others, whilest he himselfe tooke vnreasonably of all men.

1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. F2^v If it be not vnreasonable, you maye assure your selfe of it, for you knowe, that I haue neuer bin strait laced againste you or anye of your frends.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. lix. 468 Our fathers also, notwithstanding they were most streightlaced, and hardly brought to capitulat and compound for peace, yet sent Embassadours..to redeeme their Captives.

1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 523 The Pope was somewhat strait laced in admitting him.

d. Of persons, their habits, opinions, etc.: Excessively rigid or scrupulous in matters of conduct; narrow or over-precise in one's rules of practice or moral judgement; prudish.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly proper

moy1487

strait-laced1554

mima1586

prim1702

prick-eared1707

prudish1717

priggish1731

primsy1786

trig1793

missish1795

missy1805

pershittie1808

missyish1818

missy-like1831

primmy1857

pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857

antiseptic1891

blue-nosed1893

prissy1894

Nice Nelly1922

prissified1923

prunes and prismy1931

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adjective] > conscientious > excessively conscientious

scripulousc1443

overscrupulous1549

strait-laced1554

conscionable1559

squeamish1581

spice-conscienced1600

spice-consciencec1613

scrupulous1779

mealy-mouthed1809

the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > conforming > strictly > of conduct, life, etc.

strait-laced1554

rigid1609

astringent1821

1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes vi. sig. Kiiii He had to doe with certaine holy and straite lased heretikes, whiche denied it to be lawful for a Christian man after his baptisme to retourne to his wife.

1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. V 2 They of the Reformed Religion may not Dance, being an exercise against which their strait-laced Ministers much inueigh.

1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 175 Doe not alwaies stand upon the nice puntilioes..of state and place..; these that doe not observe this, are a little too strait laced for businesse either civill or religious.

1659 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (N.S.) 17 114 If hee or any man else in this place were soe straite laced that they could nott endure such thinges [as a market on Sunday], they might depart the towne.

1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia iii. i. 36 I am not streight Lac'd; but when I was young, I ne'r knew any thing gotten by Wenching, but Duels, Claps, and Bastards.

a1703 E. Filmer Def. Plays (1707) sig. A6^v Had these strait-lac'd Gentlemen once gain'd their Point against Plays.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 16 This strait-lac't Doctrine seems contrary to the Justice, Mercy and Holiness of God.

1857 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. July 273 Gibbon, no straightlaced judge,..records his judgment [etc.].

1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxix. 311 They have such ridiculously strait-laced notions.

1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South (1887) i. i. 22 At no time during the period..have the print-sellers of the gay capital been very straight-laced.

1904 L. Stephen Eng. Lit. & Soc. 18th Cent. iv. 162 Richardson seemed to be a narrow, straitlaced preacher.

†e. Hampered by narrow rules of procedure.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > entangling or confining > entangled or confined > by narrow rules or procedures

strait-laced1766

1766 ? G. Grenville Speech against Susp. Prerogative (ed. 3) 14 But if that strange thing should fall out, our constitution is not so strait laced as to let a nation die or be stifled, rather than it should be helped by any but the proper officers.

1791 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 527 Will Congress be too strait~laced to carry the constitution into honest effect?

Derivatives

ˈstraitˌlacedness n.

ΚΠ

1876 M. Collins & F. Collins Village Comedy II. xii. 150 This division of the people led in time to a general appearance of priggishness and straitlacedness in the village.

1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 38 Their assumption of morality and puritanical straitlacedness is admirable.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	strait-laced
释义	strait-lacedadj. Brit. /ˌstreɪtˈleɪst/, U.S. /ˈstreɪtˈˌleɪst/ Etymology: < strait adv. + laced adj.¹ †1. a. Wearing stays or bodice tightly laced. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing underwear > wearing corset under lacea1450 strait-laceda1630 corseted1871 a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. v. 485 The [Irish] wemen generally are not straight laced, perhapps for feare to hurt the sweetenes of breath, and the greatest part are not laced at all. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. No Maid here's handsome thought, unless she can With her short Palms her streight-lac't body span. 1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11 We should as certainly have no perfect children born, as we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 394 A Plump Lass being in more esteem than our Slender and Strait-laced Maidens. in extended use.1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ix. xlvii. 141 The strait-lac'd Insects slender Brood did ne'r Shrink up themselves into a scanter Dresse. b. Of a bodice, etc.: Tightly laced. rare.Cf. quot. c1430, where strait laced is not a compound, but two words. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [adjective] > bodice strait-laced1855 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 201 Hire crowpe doth the semys shrede, Whan they so streyght lasyd been.] 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 148 It was never, he [Child] declared with much spirit, found politic to put trade into straitlaced bodices. 2. figurative. †a. Of things: Narrow in range or scope. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > quality of being restricted or limited > [adjective] narroweOE restraint1445 modifiedc1485 limitate1541 restricteda1550 strait-laced1549 scant1556 circumcised1561 contract1561 restrained1578 determinate1586 limited1590 restrict1597 strict1597 confined1605 determineda1616 limitary1620 prescript1645 modificated1646 circumscribed1647 conscribed1654 limitated1654 reserved1654 coarctated1655 straiteneda1665 unabsolute1694 stinted1710 bounded1711 contracted1711 cramped1741 special1815 municipal1856 fine-cut1894 stingy1927 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. ii. f. vi Lest Christian loue shoulde appeare to be but a straite laced loue. 1579 G. Harvey Two Other Lett. (1580) 64 He might haue spared..that same restrictiue, & streightlaced terme, Precisely. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vi. 4–9. 272 But this exposition is too straite laced, and attaineth not to the verie meaning of Moses. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. xi. 41 Natural Causes are not so straight-lac'd. †b. Of persons: Shut up within oneself, uncommunicative, morose, unsympathetic. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [adjective] unkinda1393 uncharitablec1485 incharitable1496 strait-laced1546 ingenerous1635 lean-souled1639 ungenerous1641 mean1665 straitened1712 strait1760 strait-hearted1760 little1766 unmagnanimous1788 narrowing1827 shoddy1918 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Div^v He is so hye in thynstep, and so streight laste, That pryde and couetise withdrawth al repaste. 1549 J. Olde in M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. Prol. sig. .iiii Whan were maisters more vnlouyng or strayterlaced to their seruauntes? 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxvii. 10) i. f. 102 All mortal men who are of nature nigardly & streitlaced [L. qui natura maligni sunt ac restricti]. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 12 Commonly if they be adorned with beautie, they be so straight laced, and made so high in the insteppe, that they disdaine them most that most desyre them. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 297 Is it then possible for a Man seriously and constantly to contemplate the..Goodness of God, and..to be selfish and strait-laced, niggardly and covetous? †c. Obstinate, indisposed to yield; grudging in gifts or concessions. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > obstinacy or stubbornness > [adjective] > inflexible ironOE stour1303 strange1338 unmovablea1382 inflexible1398 stoutc1410 unpliablea1425 intreatable1509 stiff1526 stiff-necked1526 unpliant1547 stout-hearted1552 inexorable1553 obstinate1559 strait-laced1560 impersuasible1576 unflexiblea1586 hard-edged1589 adamantive1594 unyielding1594 adder-deaf1597 steeled1600 irrefragable1601 rigid1606 unpersuadable1607 imployable1613 unswayablea1616 uncompellable1623 inflexive?1624 over-rigid1632 unlimbera1639 seta1640 incomplying1640 uncomplying1643 stiff-girt1659 impersuadable1680 unbendinga1688 impracticable1713 unblendable1716 stiff-rumped1728 unconvinciblea1747 uncompounding1782 unplastic1787 unbending1796 adamant1816 uneasy1819 uncompromising1828 cast iron1829 hard-hitting1831 rigoristic1844 ramrod1850 pincé1858 anchylosed1860 unbendable1884 tape-bound1900 tape-tied1900 hard line1903 tough1905 absolutist1907 hard-arsed1942 go-for-broke1946 hardcore1951 hard-arse1966 hard-ass1967 hardball1974 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. clxij^v He requested them, that they woulde not be ouer streight lased, but to graunt to so muche as they myght with a saufe conscience. 1579–80 T. North tr. Galba in Plutarch Lives (1595) 1113 Titus Iunius..onely made the Emperour straight laced to all others, whilest he himselfe tooke vnreasonably of all men. 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. F2^v If it be not vnreasonable, you maye assure your selfe of it, for you knowe, that I haue neuer bin strait laced againste you or anye of your frends. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. lix. 468 Our fathers also, notwithstanding they were most streightlaced, and hardly brought to capitulat and compound for peace, yet sent Embassadours..to redeeme their Captives. 1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 523 The Pope was somewhat strait laced in admitting him. d. Of persons, their habits, opinions, etc.: Excessively rigid or scrupulous in matters of conduct; narrow or over-precise in one's rules of practice or moral judgement; prudish. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affectedly proper moy1487 strait-laced1554 mima1586 prim1702 prick-eared1707 prudish1717 priggish1731 primsy1786 trig1793 missish1795 missy1805 pershittie1808 missyish1818 missy-like1831 primmy1857 pruney and prismatic (or prismy)1857 antiseptic1891 blue-nosed1893 prissy1894 Nice Nelly1922 prissified1923 prunes and prismy1931 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > [adjective] > conscientious > excessively conscientious scripulousc1443 overscrupulous1549 strait-laced1554 conscionable1559 squeamish1581 spice-conscienced1600 spice-consciencec1613 scrupulous1779 mealy-mouthed1809 the world > action or operation > behaviour > a standard of conduct > [adjective] > conforming > strictly > of conduct, life, etc. strait-laced1554 rigid1609 astringent1821 1554 T. Martin Traictise Marriage of Priestes vi. sig. Kiiii He had to doe with certaine holy and straite lased heretikes, whiche denied it to be lawful for a Christian man after his baptisme to retourne to his wife. 1598 R. Dallington View of Fraunce sig. V 2 They of the Reformed Religion may not Dance, being an exercise against which their strait-laced Ministers much inueigh. 1639 J. Saltmarsh Pract. Policie 175 Doe not alwaies stand upon the nice puntilioes..of state and place..; these that doe not observe this, are a little too strait laced for businesse either civill or religious. 1659 in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. (N.S.) 17 114 If hee or any man else in this place were soe straite laced that they could nott endure such thinges [as a market on Sunday], they might depart the towne. 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia iii. i. 36 I am not streight Lac'd; but when I was young, I ne'r knew any thing gotten by Wenching, but Duels, Claps, and Bastards. a1703 E. Filmer Def. Plays (1707) sig. A6^v Had these strait-lac'd Gentlemen once gain'd their Point against Plays. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 16 This strait-lac't Doctrine seems contrary to the Justice, Mercy and Holiness of God. 1857 W. E. Gladstone in Q. Rev. July 273 Gibbon, no straightlaced judge,..records his judgment [etc.]. 1860 R. B. Brough Marston Lynch xxix. 311 They have such ridiculously strait-laced notions. 1884 G. A. Sala Journey due South (1887) i. i. 22 At no time during the period..have the print-sellers of the gay capital been very straight-laced. 1904 L. Stephen Eng. Lit. & Soc. 18th Cent. iv. 162 Richardson seemed to be a narrow, straitlaced preacher. †e. Hampered by narrow rules of procedure. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [adjective] > entangling or confining > entangled or confined > by narrow rules or procedures strait-laced1766 1766 ? G. Grenville Speech against Susp. Prerogative (ed. 3) 14 But if that strange thing should fall out, our constitution is not so strait laced as to let a nation die or be stifled, rather than it should be helped by any but the proper officers. 1791 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 527 Will Congress be too strait~laced to carry the constitution into honest effect? Derivatives ˈstraitˌlacedness n. ΚΠ 1876 M. Collins & F. Collins Village Comedy II. xii. 150 This division of the people led in time to a general appearance of priggishness and straitlacedness in the village. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 38 Their assumption of morality and puritanical straitlacedness is admirable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1546
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