strained (adj.) Old form(s): Strain'd
refined, purified, distilled
TC IV.iv.23[Troilus to Cressida] I love thee in so strained a purity / That the blest gods ... take thee from me
TC IV.v.169[Agamemnon to Hector] faith and troth, / Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing
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