overstraitly

English

Etymology

overstrait +‎ -ly

Adverb

overstraitly (comparative more overstraitly, superlative most overstraitly)

1. (obsolete) Too straitly or strictly.
   • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):

     In the mean while Demetrius Pharius, whom the Romans had made king over a great part of Illyria, rebelled against them; either for that he found himself overstraitly tied up by them with hard conditions, or rather because he was of an unthankful disposition.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overstraitly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)