perstringe
English
Etymology
From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈstɹɪn(d)ʒ/
Verb
perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)
- (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition I, section 2, member 4, subsection iv:
- I speak not of such as generally tax vice […] but such as personate, rail, scoff, calumniate, perstringe by name, or in presence offend.
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Latin
Verb
perstringe
- second-person singular present active imperative of perstringō