Perstringo, perstringis, perstrinxi. per strictum, perstringere. Cato. To wring hard: to touch a thing shortly in speaking, or writing: to dul or darke with too much light: to dazel: to reprehende in fewe wordes: to make one somwhat grieued.Perstringere oculos splendore micanti. Lucil. To dazell the sight with glistering brightnesse.Perstringere aciem, aut oculos mentis, & animorum, aur boni ingenij.Cic.To dull, darcken, or abash the strength and quickenesse of ones minde or wit. Voluptas rationi inimica mentis oculos perstringit. Cic.Murmure cornuum perstringis aures. Horat. Thou dullest, stoniest or sillest mine eares with the noise of hornes.Fulmineum perstrinxit iter. Claud. Hee passed his waye as swift as lightning.Terram aratro perstringere.Cic.To til the grounde.Horrore perstringi.Liu.To be in such a feare that al the bedie trembleth or is chill for colde. Perstringere aliquem. Cicero. To nippe, taunt, or checke, shortely in writing or speaking.Celeriter cursum aliquem perstringere. Ci. Quickly to dispatch a voyage or sorney.Voluntatem alicnius asperioribus verbis perstringere.Cic.With sharpe wordes to reproue.Suspicione perstringere. Cice. To make one somewhat suspected. Perstringere rem aliquam. Cice. Briesly to touch a thing.Leuiter transire, ac tantÛmodo perstringere vnamquanque rem.Cic.To passe ouer lightly, and in fewe wordes onely to touch euerie point.Quem locum breuiter perstrinxi.Cic.Perqum breuiter aliquid perstringere & attingere.Cicer.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.I.To bind tightly together; to draw together, draw up, contract: vitem, Cato, R. R. 32: stomachus nimio rigore perstrictus, Veg. Vet. 3, 53; Grat. Cyneg. 296.—II.To graze, graze against a thing. A.Lit.: femur, Verg. A. 10, 344: solum aratro,
to plough slightly
, Cic. Agr. 2, 25: portam vomere,
to graze against
, id. Phil. 2, 40 dub. (al. praestr-).—2.Transf., To blunt by grazing against, to make dull, to dull: minaci murmure aures,
to stun
,
deafen
, Hor. C. 2, 1, 18: juvenem multo perstringunt lumine, Stat. Th. 5, 666 (but for perstringere oculos, aciem, etc., cf. praestringo).—B.Trop.1.To seize: horror ingens spectantes perstringit, Liv. 1, 25; Val. Fl. 7, 81; cf. id. 7, 194.—2. In partic. a.To touch or wound slightly with words; to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove (class.): alicujus voluntatem asperioribus facetiis, Cic. Planc. 14, 33: aliquem vocis libertate, id. Sest. 6, 14: aliquem suspicione, id. Sull. 16, 46: aliquem oblique, Tac. A. 5, 11: cultum habitumque alicujus lenibus verbis, id. ib. 2, 59: modice perstricti, id. ib. 4, 17: ad perstringendos mulcendosque militum animos, id. H. 1, 85.— b. In speaking, to touch slightly, to glance over, to narrate briefly: leviter transire ac tantummodo perstringere unamquamque rem, Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91: quod meis omnibus litteris in Pompeianā laude perstrictus est (Crassus),
belittled
,
slighted
, id. Att. 1, 14, 3: perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere, id. de Or. 2, 49, 201: celeriter perstringere reliquum vitae cursum, id. Phil. 2, 19, 47: summatim, Vulg. Dan. 7, 1.