†h.to condemn to straw: to declare worthy of a madhouse. Obsolete.
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1779 S. JohnsonDryden in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets III. 180 Virgil would have been too hasty, if he had condemned him [sc. Statius] to straw for one sounding line.