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May. 12, 2015

hidebound \HAHYD-bound\ adjective 1. narrow and rigid in opinion; inflexible: a hidebound pedant. 2. oriented toward or confined to the past; extremely conservative: a hidebound philosopher. Quotes I never saw a man so distressed as you were by my will; unless it were that hidebound pedant, Lanyon, at what he called my scientific heresies. -- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1886 Origin Hidebound entered English in the mid-1500s as a descriptor for malnourished cattle. It joins the words hide meaning "the pelt or skin of one of the larger animals" and bound meaning "made fast as if by a band or bond."

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