Pertento, pertentas, pertentâre. Terent.To attempt: to assaye or prooue much.Nobilium adolescentium animos pertentabant.Liui.They prooued often.Perspice rem, & pertenta. Cicero. Vnderstande the matter throughly, and trie it.Causam totam pertentare & perspicere.Cic.Dictis varijs pertentar pectora.Stat.With sundrie wordes he trieth or prooueth their mindes how they be bent.Administratio negotij ex omnib9 partib9 pertÊtabitur. C. Tremor pertentat tota equorum corpora.Virg.The horses bodies beginne to shake or tremble: or horses shake their whole bodies.Gaudia pertentant mentem. Virgil. Ioy often beginneth to moue their minde.Gaudia pertentant tacitum pectus.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
per-tento, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to feel all over; hence, I.To prove, try, test any thing. A.Lit. (very rare): cum utrumque pugionem pertentasset, Tac. H. 2, 49: alta bipenni latera, Petr. poët. 89, v. 24.— B.Trop. (rare but class.): aliquem, Ter. And. 3, 4, 9: animum cohortis, Tac. H. 1, 29: rem, to consider or weigh well, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 4, 5: omnia pertento, omnia experior, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 15: nobilium adulescentium animos, Liv. 2, 3, 6.—II.To pervade, invade; to seize, affect (poet. and in postAug. prose): dum prima lues ... Pertentat sensus, Verg. A. 7, 354: pertentant gaudia pectus, id. ib. 1, 502: tremor pertentet Corpora, id. G. 3, 250: vinolentiā ac fatigatione pertentatus, App. M. 1, p. 107, 10.