streightened

streightened

English

Verb

streightened

1. Obsolete form of straightened.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 106:

     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;