Word Meanings - RED-TAPIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is tenacious of a strict adherence to official formalities. Ld. Lytton.

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• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• OFFICIALISM
  The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.
• STRICTNESS
  Quality or state of being strict.
• OFFICIALTY
  The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.
• STRICTURED
  Affected with a stricture; as, a strictured duct.
• TENACIOUS
  1. Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights. 2. Apt to retain; retentive; as, a tenacious memory. 3. Having parts apt to adhere to each other; cohesive; tough; as,
• STRICTURE
  A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic. Arbuthnot. (more info) 1. Strictness. A man of stricture and firm abstinence. Shak. 2. A stroke; a glance;
• STRICTLY
  In a strict manner; closely; precisely.
• OFFICIALLY
  By the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.
• OFFICIAL
  Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug or preparation. Cf. Officinal. 4. Discharging an office or function. The stomach and other parts official unto nutrition. Sir T. Browne.
• STRICTION
  The act of constricting, or the state of being constricted. Line of striction , the line on a skew surface that cuts each generator in that point of it that is nearest to the succeeding generator.
• OFFICIALITY
  See OFFICIALTY
• ADHERENCE
  1. The quality or state of adhering. 2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• INOFFICIALLY
  Without the usual forms, or not in the official character.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• CONSTRICTION
  1. The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression. 2. The state of being constricted; the point where a thing is constricted; a narrowing or binding.
• VASOCONSTRICTOR
  Causing constriction of the blood vessels; as, the vasoconstrictor nerves, stimulation of which causes constriction of the blood vessels to which they go. These nerves are also called vasohypertonic. n.
• CONSTRICT
  To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or ause to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.
• ADSTRICT
  See ASTRICTION (more info) -- Ad*stric"tion, n.
• DISTRICT
  Rigorous; stringent; harsh. Punishing with the rod of district severity. Foxe.
• PRESTRICTION
  Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. Milton.
• ASTRICTORY
  Astrictive.
• RED-LIGHT DISTRICT
  A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.