Obstringo, obstringis, obstrinxi, obstrictum, obstríngere. To binde fast: to tye hard: to wrappe in bondes.Collum obstringere homini.Plaut.To tye by the necke. Obstringere sibi aliquem munere, beneficio. &c. Plinius. iunior. To binde or make one bounde vnto him by gift, or benesit.Obstringere & obligare.Cic.In perpetuum sibi aliquem obstringere.Cicer.To make one bounden to him for euer.Aëre alieno amicos suos obstringere. Brutus Ciceroni. To bring his friend in debt.Obstringere beneficijs, donis, spe.Cic.Debito aliquem obstringere. Seneca. To bring one in debt: to make one his debter.Fidem suam obstringere alteri.Plin. iun. Liuius. To make a faithfull promise: to plight his faith and truth: to promise vpon his honestie.Iureiurando obstringere aliquem. Cæsar. To bind one with an othe.Legibus obstringi.Cic.Religione voti obstrictus.Cic.Bounden with the conscience of his vowe.Religione obstringere.Cicer.To charge ones conscience: to make one haue a pricke of conscience to doe a thing. Vide RELIGIO. Omnium officiorum obstringireligione.Cic.To be charged or bound in conscience for the satisfying or fulsilling of all honest dutie of friendship.Nulla mendacij religione obstrictus. Cæsar. He hath made no lye: or his conscience is not burdened with any lye that he hath made.Prædibus se obstringere.Cicer.To put in sureties: to binde him selfe by sureties.Voluptatibus obstringi.Cic. Obstringere se parricidio, periuriô, scelere, & buiusmodi: pro Committere parricidium, scelus, peierare, &c.Cic.To haue committed hainous murder, periury, wickednesse, &c.Nefario patriæ se parricidio obstrinxit.Cic.He hath his conscience burdened with the haynous destruction of his coÛtrey: or he hath haynously and wickedly wrought the destruction of his countrey.Num igitur se obstrinxit scelere, siquis tyrannum occîdit, quãuis familiarem? Cic.Hath one committed any hainous act, if he haue killed a tyranne though he were his familiar friend?Obstringere se periurio.Liu.To commit periurie. Obstringere se hæreditati. Paulus. To claime and take possession of ones heritage.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-stringo, strinxi, strictum, 3, v. a.I.To bind to or about; to bind, tie, or fasten up (rare): follem obstringit ob gulam, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 23: quom ego Amphitruonem collo hinc obstricto traham, id. Am. 3, 2, 72: cervice obstrictā, Juv. 10, 88: tauros aratro,
to yoke
, Val. Fl. 7, 602.—II.To bind, bind up, close up by binding. 1.Lit. (rare): laqueo collum, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 12. —2.Transf.(a).To shut in, confine: ventos, Hor. C. 1, 3, 4: viminibus, Col. 4, 29.—(b).To hold together by: purpurea vestis ingentibus obstricta gemmis,
in which precious stones were the fastenings
, Flor. 4, 11, 3.—III.Trop., to bind, tie, fetter, hamper; to oblige, lay under obligation (the class. signif. of the word; syn.: obligo, devincio): donis aliquem obstringere, Cic. Clu. 66, 190: civitatem jurejurando, Caes. B. G. 1, 31: legibus, Cic. Inv. 2, 45, 132: foedere, id. Pis. 13, 29: aliquem aere alieno,
to bring into debt
, id. Fam. 11, 10, 5: jurejurando,
to bind by an oath
, Tac. A. 1, 14: animam suam, Vulg. Num. 30, 9: quam plurimas civitates suo sibi beneficio habere obstrictas volebat,
bound, under obligation
, Caes. B. G. 1, 9: Atticum officiis, Cic. Fam. 3, 18, 2: qui se tot sceleribus obstrinxerit,
, Tac. H. 4, 55: obstringi conscientiā tanti sceleris, ne, etc., to be hindered by the sense of so great a crime, from, etc., Liv. 4, 17, 5: aliquem societate scelerum, Tac. A. 4, 57: fidem suam alicui,
to pledge one's word, to promise positively
, Plin. 7, 1, 1, 8; Plin. Ep. 4, 13, 11; cf. Just. 2, 15, 14.—Mid.: qui alienum ... sustulit, furti obstringitur, makes himself guilty, becomes guilty, Sabin. ap. Gell. 11, 18, 21: eidem sceleri obstrictus est, Lact. 3, 18, 6.—Hence, obstrictus, a, um, P. a.; according to III., bound, obliged.—Comp.: obstrictior Debitor, Paul. Nol. Nat. Felic. 9, 145.—Hence, obstrictē, adv.; comp.: obstrictius, more stringently, Aug. Civ. Dei, 2, 24.