Meanings
verb
- obsoleteObsolete form of straightened.
My Pen, streightened by the Rapidity of Time, the Abundance of Things I have to say, and the almost inſenſible Progress of the first Improvements, flies like an Arrow over numberless Ages;
1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 106
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