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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Procrustean bed
 
VARIANT FORMS: also procrustean bed
NOUN: An arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced.
 
 
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS · INDEX · ILLUSTRATIONS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  Procrustean procryptic  
 
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