perstringe
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin perstringere, from per- + stringere (“to tie, bind”).
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Verb[edit]
perstringe (third-person singular simple present perstringes, present participle perstringing, simple past and past participle perstringed)
- (now archaic or literary) To censure; criticize.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by 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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Verb[edit]
perstringe