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adjective

Lax adj. (compar. laxer; superl. laxest)

Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as, a lax bandage; lax fiber. "The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy."

Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague; equivocal. "The discipline was lax." "Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in matters of the passions." "The word "aeternus" itself is sometimes of a lax signification."

Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.

Synonyms: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained; dissolute; licentious.

noun

Lax n. A looseness; diarrhea.

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Etymology of 'Lax'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lax" Quotes from Famous Books

... whom we owe much, no respect for the natural clinging of the old to the faith which has accompanied them through honourable lives, can warrant us in saying that we believe to be true what we are convinced is false. The most lax moralist counts a lie wrong, even when the motive is unselfish, and springs from the desire to give pleasure to those whom it is our duty to please. A deliberate lie avowedly does not cease to be one because it concerns spiritual things. Nor is it the less ...

— On Compromise • John Morley

... office was infested with rats, and its discipline was lax, in all save speed and quality of work, and some of his companions were of a dissipated stamp. To add to his discomforts, the line he worked was old and defective; but he improved the signals by adjusting ...

— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... hand across his face, unconsciously; his arm fell lax at his side. As the girl had known, he did not follow the lead, would not follow it unless ...

— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge

... can be forgiven, except under special circumstances, appears to have prevailed in wide circles, if not everywhere.[212] It reveals the earnestness of those early Christians and their elevated sense of freedom and power; but it might be united either with the highest moral intensity, or with a lax judgment on the little sins of the day. The latter, in point of fact, threatened to become more and more the presupposition and result of that idea—for there exists here a fatal ...

— History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) • Adolph Harnack

... of mournful courtesy and kindness remarkable in one of his blunt ways and ordinary rough manner. He called her by her Christian name often and fondly, was very soft and gentle with the children, especially with the boy, whom he did not love, and being lax about church generally, he went thither and performed all the offices (down even to listening to Dr. Tusher's sermon) ...

— The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. • W. M. Thackeray

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