straitwaistcoated

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   historical: confined in a strait-waistcoat, or figuratively subjected to severe intellectual or institutional restraint

   Russell mocked an idealist universe as a strait-waistcoated benevolent institution.

From straitwaistcoat + -ed. Strait-waistcoat was an older name for a straitjacket, using strait in its sense "tight, narrow, constraining"; the figurative adjective applies such confinement to thought or institutions.

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