| 单词 | to speak strictly |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto speak strictly 8. With exact use of words; exactly, precisely. Often in the parenthetic phrase strictly speaking or to speak strictly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > truthfulness, veracity > [adverb] > so as to match truth, exactly rightlyeOE rightOE faithfullyc1425 preciselya1513 justlya1538 verbatim1566 strictly1602 exactly1662 correctlya1704 prezactly1835 sensu stricto1849 perzactly1850 'zackly1886 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > [adverb] > accurately strictly1602 unerringly1645 in strictness of speech, of law1648 sensu stricto1849 stricto sensu1931 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster v. ii. sig. K3v Horace hath (but more strictly) spoke our thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1639 W. Sclater, Jr. Worthy Communicant Rewarded 66 That speech..is to be understood in Trope, or sacred Figure, not strictly, and abstractively. 1673 S'too him Bayes 92 If this (strictly speaking) be no Quibble. a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 11 A fictitious and umbratile kind of treason, and to speak strictly, no treason at all. 1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 397 Plants have no digestive apparatus strictly so called. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 13 During the century and a half which followed the Conquest, there is, to speak strictly, no English history. 1912 Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. 762 What he describes as the Amorian period, though this name strictly applies only to the last forty-seven years. < as lemmas |
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