strait-lacev.
transitive and intransitive (for reflexive.) To lace tightly, confine.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]
bindc1200
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
corset1935
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action
bind971
hamper?a1366
chain1377
coarctc1400
prison?a1425
tether?a1505
fetter1526
imprisona1533
strait1533
swaddle1539
measure1560
shacklea1568
to tie up1570
manacle1577
straitena1586
hopple1586
immew16..
scant1600
cabina1616
criba1616
trammela1616
copse1617
cramp1625
cloister1627
incarcerate1640
hidebind1642
to box up1659
strait-lace1662
perstringe1679
hough-band1688
cabin1780
pin1795
strait jacket1814
peg1832
befetter1837
to tie the hands of1866
hog-tie1924
corset1935
1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis vi. 69 Is not this to slurr his goodnesse! and to straight-lace the divine beneficence.
Derivatives
strait-lacer n. (in quot. 1913 figurative).
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1913 J. L. Paton J. B. Paton xvii. 309 A well-meaning straitlacer.
strait-lacing n. and adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > fastening
garteringa1529
cingling1603
strait-lacing1636
buttoninga1645
succincture1894
society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective]
restraintive1526
limitative1530
circumscribing1571
restrictive1580
continent1598
restricting1606
confininga1616
contractive1624
strait-lacing1636
limiting1656
cohibitive1668
contracting1765
limitary1822
restrictionary1828
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] > restricting or limiting
narroweOE
restraintive1526
limitative1530
circumscribing1571
restrictive1580
restraining1597
continent1598
restricting1606
confininga1616
contractive1624
strait-lacing1636
limiting1656
cohibitive1668
contracting1765
restrictory1776
limitary1822
restrictionary1828
scopeless1882
1636 W. Durham in Ann. Dubrensia sig. B3v Then they repine at their streight-lacing shore, Prohibiting their passage to his dore.
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 80 Endeavouring by strait-lacing to be as slender in the middle as the Strand-May-pole is tall in its height.
1693 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §11 I have seen so many Instances of Children receiving great harm from strait-lacing.
1700 W. Congreve Way of World iv. i. 59 I denounce against all strait-Laceing, Squeezing for a Shape, till you mold my boy's head like a Sugar-loaf.
1776 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1778) 313 The strait lacing of the English ladies.
1811 C. Lamb Theatralia in Reflector 2 300 How cruelly this operates upon the mind, to have its free conceptions thus cramped and pressed down to the measure of a strait-lacing actuality, may be judged from [etc.].
1820 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. p. xxx A course of straight-lacing and cool diet was bringing her a little more into compass.
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