Perfringo, perfríngis, perfrégi, pen. pro. perfractum, perfringere. Terent.To breake in peeces: to breake with violence.Penitus perfringere.Liu.Perfríngere aciem tenuem, Vide ACIES.Angustias omnes, omnes altitudines, omnium obiecta tela vi & virtute perfringere.Cic.Colla perfringere bipenni.Val. Flac.Domos perfringere.Tacit.To breake open houses.Perfringere phalangem hostium. Cæs. To breake the araye of the enimies armie.Portas vi perfringere. Lucan. Tempora perfregit fuluo protecta capillo. Ou. He brake his temples or head, &c. Perfringere aliquem. Ci. To ouercome one, and bring him to fauour our part.Perfundere animos. non perfringere. Cic.To delight mens mindes, and not violently to bende or ouercome them.Perfringere & labefactare bonorum conspirationem.Cic.Perfringere decreta, leges, repagula iuris.Cic.Perfregit ac prostrauit omnia cupidirate & furore. C. With outragious lust and furie hee brake and bare downe all things before him.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
perfringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [perfrango], to break through, to break or dash in pieces, to shiver, shatter (class.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: elephanto pugno perfregisti bracchium, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 26: jumenta ingredientia nivem ... jactandis gravius in connitendo ungulis penitus perfringebant,
broke through
, Liv. 21, 36, 8: saxo perfracto capite,
his skull fractured by a stroke of a stone
, id. 4, 28 fin.: tempora fulvo protecta capillo, Ov. M. 12, 274: perfracto saxo sortes erupisse, Cic. Div. 2, 41, 85: Olympum fulmine, Ov. M. 1, 154: nucem, Plin. 10, 12, 14, 30: aliquid, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 12: munitiones, Caes. B. G. 7, 85: tabulationem, id. B. C. 2, 9: naves perfregerant proras, litori illisas,
had been wrecked
, Liv. 22, 20.—B. In partic., to break or burst through, to force one's way through any obstacle: hostium phalangem, Caes. B. G. 1, 25: aciem, Sil. 9, 362: muros, Tac. H. 3, 20: domos,
to break into
, id. ib. 4, 1.—II.Trop.A.To break through, violate, infringe: decreta senatūs, Cic. Mil. 32, 87: leges, id. Cat. 1, 7, 18: ac prosternere omnia cupiditate ac furore, id. Clu. 6, 15.—B.To break or burst through: omnia repagula juris, pudoris et officii perfringere. Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 15, 39: perfringere et labefactare tantam conspirationem bonorum omnium, id. Cat. 4, 10, 22: animos suavitate,
to affect powerfully
, id. Brut. 9, 38.—Absol.: haec (eloquentia) modo perfringit, modo irrepit in sensus, Cic. Or. 28, 97.