strictly Copy link Outline I. Carefully1. dīlĭgenter2. restrictēII. AccuratelyIII. AbsolutelyIV. Rigorously, rigidly1. dūrē (on hard fare)2. dūrĭter (like preced.)3. rĭgĭdē (rigorously)4. sĕvērē • strictly: I. Carefully: 1. dīlĭgenter: to observe an order very s., praeceptum diligentissime observare, Caes. B. G. 5, 35: v. also punctiliously, scrupulously. 2. restrictē: all other points I do not so s. determine, cetera non tam r. praefinio, Cic. Leg. 2, 18, 45: cf. id. Am. 16, 58. Phr.: to blockade a house s. (or with strict guards), acribus custodiis sepire domum, Tac. A. 1, 5. II. Accurately: q. v. Phr.: to be s. true, habere in se omnes numeros veritatis, Cic. Div. 1, 13, 23. Esp. s. (= in strict sense), of words: proprie (v. properly, I.). III. Absolutely: q. v. Phr.: they took nothing beyond what was s. necessary, nihil ultra usum necessarium sumebant, Liv. (Quich.). IV. Rigorously, rigidly: 1. dūrē (on hard fare): v. rigorously. 2. dūrĭter (like preced.): to live stingily and s., parce ac d. se habere, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 45. 3. rĭgĭdē (rigorously): to tighten more s. military discipline, disciplinam militarem rigidius astringere, Val. Max. 9, 7, fin.: cf. aliquid r. submovere, Ov. T. 2, 251. 4. sĕvērē: to write rather s. to some one, ad aliquem severius scribere, Caes. B. C. 3, 25: v. also severely, sternly.