perstringe

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (to tie, bind).

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perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)

  1. (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, 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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perstringe

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of perstringō