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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lax \Lax\, a. [Compar. {Laxer}; superl. {Laxest}.] [L. laxus Cf
{Laches}, {Languish}, {Lease}, v. t., {Leash}.]
1. Not tense, firm, or rigid; loose; slack; as a lax
bandage; lax fiber.
The flesh of that sort of fish being lax and spongy.
--Ray.
2. Not strict or stringent; not exact; loose; weak; vague;
equivocal.
The discipline was lax. --Macaulay.
Society at that epoch was lenient, if not lax, in
matters of the passions. --J. A.
Symonds
The word ``[ae]ternus'' itself is sometimes of a lax
signification. --Jortin.
3. Having a looseness of the bowels; diarrheal.
Syn: Loose; slack; vague; unconfined; unrestrained;
dissolute; licentious.
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