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adjective

Strange adj. (compar. stranger; superl. strangest)

1.

Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." "One of the strange queen's lords." "I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues."

2.

Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic. "So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights."

3.

Not before known, heard, or seen; new. "Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you."

4.

Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. "He is sick of a strange fever." "Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me."

5.

Reserved; distant in deportment. "She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee."

6.

Backward; slow. (Obs.) "Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause."

7.

Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. "In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange." Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. "Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below."

Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel.

Strange woman (Script.), a harlot.

To make it strange.

(a)

To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.

(b)

To make it a matter of difficulty. (Obs.)

To make strange, To make one's self strange.

(a)

To profess ignorance or astonishment.

(b)

To assume the character of a stranger.

Synonyms: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.

verb

Strange v. t. To alienate; to estrange. (Obs.)

Strange v. i.

1.

To be estranged or alienated. (Obs.)

2.

To wonder; to be astonished. (Obs.)

adverb

Strange adv. Strangely. (Obs.) "Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak."

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Etymology of 'Strange'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Craftsmanship in Teaching • William Chandler Bagley

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— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds

... powerful frame against the marble, with arms folded across his mighty chest; his deep-set eyes were overshadowed by heavy brows and his square forehead cut across by the furrow of a perpetual frown which gave the whole face a strange expression of untamed will and of savage pride, in no way softened by the firm lines of the tightly closed lips or the contour of the ...

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