Verb
perstringō (present infinitive perstringere, perfect active perstrīnxī, supine perstrictum); third conjugation
- to draw together or up
- to graze
- to seize
- to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove
- Synonyms: obiūrgō, castīgō, arguō, corripiō, accūsō, īnsector, incūsō, damnō, obloquor, exprobrō, increpō, acclāmō, inclāmō, animadvertō, reprehendō, compellō
Conjugation
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References
- “perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “perstringo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- perstringo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make a cursory mention of a thing; to mention by the way (not obiter or in transcursu): strictim, leviter tangere, attingere, perstringere aliquid